Think about when the last time you used a wall clock or even a public clock pole/tower or something. My brain doesn’t even register them anymore, I just look at my phone and reset brain to whatever magic hand box says.
To think there used to be a time where you had to physically go outside and look at a clock tower if you wanted accurate ish local time
edit: hourly workers who live by the time card, disregard this post
I have a bunch of mechanical watches that are varying degrees of inaccurate by their nature, but I do have one that isn’t inaccurate at all. A square Gshock that uses six band radio towers to update itself nightly. Just as accurate as a phone, and I use it as my reference to set my mechanical watches.
So there’s at least that alternative. Silly I know, because I’ve always got my phone close by, but I just think they’re neat.
And what time do you use to set your watch?
Maybe reread my comment? The Gshock watch sets itself daily to the atomic clock via radio broadcast. I use that watch as my reference to set the others when they’re a little off.
Edit: here’s the link from Casio explaining the technology https://gshock.casio.com/intl/technology/radio/
They use that guy’s phone to set the atomic clock though, checkmate atheist