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Old 07-18-2012, 01:37 AM
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Entire mechanical watch

I love this thing A true feat of engineering: This watch is entirely mechanical. [VIDEO]

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Old 07-18-2012, 10:42 AM
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I thought I had seen every possible design for clocks and watches. Wow! There's something I'd never seen before. Pretty cool!
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That guy clearly has too much time on his hands. The mechanical watches of the nineteenth century attained a VERY high level of qualitiy and accuracy and are MUCH less bulky.
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^ man what a buzzkill
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Old 07-18-2012, 10:56 AM
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I see the hours....where are the minutes?
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Old 07-18-2012, 10:58 AM
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the upper right dial along side I think
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Old 07-18-2012, 11:15 AM
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the upper right dial along side I think
I thought so....what a pain. I'll stick with...oh wait, I don't wear a watch
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I like Harrison's first clock. To watch it operating with the big balls swinging back and forth is fascinating.
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Old 07-18-2012, 12:14 PM
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I'd say it's more of a curiosity than anything else. I hardly ever wear a watch anymore since I most always have at least one cell phone with me.

Typically I wear one when I fly so I don't have to turn on the cell phone and put it in airplane mode just to find out what time it is.
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Old 07-18-2012, 12:19 PM
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At the price I'm sure they would ask for it, it's more of a nice to look at but never buy sort of thing. considering the lowest price I saw online on their other watches was about 24,000 bucks

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