[Arne2]

When I worked selling and servicing tires years ago, our shop had a master dial type that we used to test our pencil gauges against. I don't recall the brand of that gauge. Back in those days (I left that career in the late 90s), we generally used Dill pencil gauges in the shop, which seemed pretty good out of the box.

I still use 3 Dill pencil gauges that date to that former career, which I periodically check against a digital that I only use for calibration checks. Like you, the digital seems like overkill to me for normal use.