8 Day Clock

[nddons]

I know the premise of an 8 day clock - it stays wound for 8 days.

But how is that applicable to a cockpit clock? In many ads for aircraft for sale (i.e. T-34 Mentor) I notice the avionics list includes an 8 day clock?

Is that a brand name for an aviation clock? Is it a term to describe a "normal" clock vs a digital clock?

 

[Old Geek]

It's a mechanical clock that, as you said, stays wound for 8 days. I don't think you can read anything else into it.

 

[timwinters]

Stan,

All 8 day clocks I've seen are wakmann brand. I'm confident that there are others but I haven't seen them.

Good clocks, I have one.

 

[Art VanDelay]

We had those in the AH-1W's too. Many an Airstrike and Offshore Naval Gunnery Fire was coordinated and hacked to the second with nothing more than the mighty Wakeman 8 day clock. And maybe a Casio G Shock or two as well.

 

[Geico266]

You guys do know they have clocks now that don't need winding right?

 

[flyingron]

I have a Wakeman 8 day sitting on my bookshelf. The thing doesn't work in the plane for some reason, but it works fine on my shelf. It is worth money (many times the asshtech that replaces it which keeps deceptively WRONG time).