Clock / Barometer recommendations please.

[colind3782]

I've got every one in mainland Europe already bookmarked. Ruled out US due to problem mentioned by Steve Cronin - barometers don't like unpressurised aeroplane holds.

Aircraft holds are pressurised the same as the cabin, usually to around 8,000' for modern airliners.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Aircraft holds are pressurised the same as the cabin, usually to around 8,000' for modern airliners.

I thought the same but on a european flight 10 years ago the contents of my bag were practically frozen and the ball-point pens had exploded spreading ink over the contents of the bag. It was in the hold and since then I've never put anything that is temperature or pressure sensitive in check-in luggage.

I guess it must have been a faulty plane, but once bitten ....

 

[Woodlouse]

I have a wind up clock in the saloon. It's nice to have a bit of routine with winding it up.

For pressure, I've got a wind up barograph. So rate of change is recorded automatically. Change the paper once a week, and wind the clock at the same time.

 

[colind3782]

I thought the same but on a european flight 10 years ago the contents of my bag were practically frozen and the ball-point pens had exploded spreading ink over the contents of the bag. It was in the hold and since then I've never put anything that is temperature or pressure sensitive in check-in luggage.

I guess it must have been a faulty plane, but once bitten ....

That's interesting considering that the only thing separating the cabin and the hold is the floor and that's certainly not pressurised.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

That's interesting considering that the only thing separating the cabin and the hold is the floor and that's certainly not pressurised.

Bizzare, perhaps it was temperature and not pressure related then, or just the normal cabin variation in pressure - can't remember what kind of plane it was now though, either a regional jet or one of those prop driven nightmares they sometimes use from Munich to Nice.

 

[nigelmercier]

Don't get quite the same aesthetic effect from an LCD weather station

I was delighted when the clock mechanism on my brass clock packed up; it meant I could remove the anachronistic monstrosity that was a wooden plinth with a clock and barometer, and replace it with a modern weather station, with moon phases, moon/sun rise/set, barograph ...

Much more appropriate for a modern boat.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

I was delighted when the clock mechanism on my brass clock packed up; it meant I could remove the anachronistic monstrosity that was a wooden plinth with a clock and barometer, and replace it with a modern weather station, with moon phases, moon/sun rise/set, barograph ...

Much more appropriate for a modern boat.

Yes, but I'm a bit odd like that .... I work in technology and software so sometimes I like to indulge in a bit of nostalgia where it doesn't really matter how efficient the outcome is.

Anyway, with a build year of 1999 my boat is from the previous century