I love my GW9100. It's a keeper for life: perfect size for me, love the "revolver" look, fits every look (can even be stretched to work with a suit if necessary).
Unfortunately it doesn't sync every night because I live in downtown Boston, which i guess is too far from Ft Collins to be reliable at syncing. It only ends up syncing when I take it traveling.
I find that this watch very consistently runs a couple second fast over the course of a week. So the fast time is not noticable over a months, but if it doesn't sync for a couple months then it starts to drift more meaningfully.
The consistency with which the watch is fast is quite remarkable, and I'd venture a guess that when move quartz watches are inaccurate at all, they are also consistently inaccurate in the same way (reliable always a couple seconds slow or fast over a week).
I think it would be cool if Casio launched a watch that using atomic syncing to "correct" a quartz watch error even when the sync fails. When it syncs, my casio knows the time of my last sync, and the amount of seconds that drifted off of atomic time. By a simple equation (current atomic time - displayed time ) / days since last sync, Casio could create an "offset" that should be applied to the time every night the watch fails to sync. That way, even when syncing doesn't work, the watch will always be exactly correct.
Has anyone ever heard of a watch that does this? If not, I hope Casio incorporates something like this in a future high-end model. For people with unreliable sync locations, I think it could be a killer feature for accuracy purposes.
Unfortunately it doesn't sync every night because I live in downtown Boston, which i guess is too far from Ft Collins to be reliable at syncing. It only ends up syncing when I take it traveling.
I find that this watch very consistently runs a couple second fast over the course of a week. So the fast time is not noticable over a months, but if it doesn't sync for a couple months then it starts to drift more meaningfully.
The consistency with which the watch is fast is quite remarkable, and I'd venture a guess that when move quartz watches are inaccurate at all, they are also consistently inaccurate in the same way (reliable always a couple seconds slow or fast over a week).
I think it would be cool if Casio launched a watch that using atomic syncing to "correct" a quartz watch error even when the sync fails. When it syncs, my casio knows the time of my last sync, and the amount of seconds that drifted off of atomic time. By a simple equation (current atomic time - displayed time ) / days since last sync, Casio could create an "offset" that should be applied to the time every night the watch fails to sync. That way, even when syncing doesn't work, the watch will always be exactly correct.
Has anyone ever heard of a watch that does this? If not, I hope Casio incorporates something like this in a future high-end model. For people with unreliable sync locations, I think it could be a killer feature for accuracy purposes.
