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When is a Watch Keeping Good Time?
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  Is a gain of a minute a week excessive? Or should a loss of three minutes a day be considered normal? This article explains what to expect from a timekeeper. --- A Businessman who had recently purchased a new car complained one day to his automobile dealer that the speedometer needed fixing. "I took the car for a spin down the new turnpike which is supposed to be exactly 144 miles from beginning to end and according to my speedometer, I covered 145 miles." Since this is not an article on speedometers, there is no need to go into details about what happened next. But the speedometer was as inaccurate as a watch going ten minutes fast a day. What the auto dealer might have considered an unjustified complaint would have been a valid one to a jeweler. Accurace is therefore a relatvie matter and accurate timekeeping depends upon the requirements of some specific activity or use. Accuracy is one thing to the U.S. ...  
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