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Very useful at one time because before all of these smart watches you would just have an ordinary watch which used to probably lose a minute a day or something like that. so i used to set my watch by the pips. nowadays of course with the smart watches and things like that you don't need it quite so much but it is still very bbc and i still like it, i wouldn't want to see it disappear. archive: and off we go with | the next one and what a lovely sound this is as well. the original clock that kept the time still sits in the in the museum at the royal 0bservatory. in the 60s, though, an atomic cl...

Watch by the pips. nowadays of course with the smart watches and things like that you don't need it quite so much but it is still very bbc and i still like it, i wouldn't want to see it disappear. archive: and off we go with | the next one and what a lovely sound this is as well. the original clock that kept the time still sits in the in the museum at the royal 0bservatory. in the 60s, though, an atomic clock started doing the job which stayed in use until the 1990s when it transmitted its last pips from the royal 0bservatory. ever since then, the bbc has generated its own pips from its atomic...