CHRONOMETERS.
Why the Government are perpetually hoißting signals for the rating of chronometers is a thing ‘no fellah can understand.’ When ships’ captains begin to recognise that they can trust their Waterburys, no doubt a great deal of successful navigation will be carried on by their aid. The Waterbury is rated to record oorrect time. Any other variety, whether sidereal, mean, or Greenwich, can be arranged for if desired. One of these watches set to time at midnight on the 31st of December and wound regularly will, when the new year is as dead as the old one, still record the flight of time with the same unerring accuracy as at the start. Thirteen and sixpence is well spent in one of these watches.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 879, 4 January 1889, Page 25
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124CHRONOMETERS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 879, 4 January 1889, Page 25
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