If you want accuracy, a mechanical watch is not the right answer. Update: Best I've seen is +/-0.3 sec/day (3 ppm). Quartz can exceed this by 10x-100x. An atomic clock can beat that by many orders of magnitude.
But I'm definitely not lugging around a sextant and a cesium clock just in case.
But I'm definitely not lugging around a sextant and a cesium clock just in case.