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Originally Posted by RodKnock
Are watches complicated to assemble? And wasn't the pocket watch invented in the 1500's? Wouldn't that make the design of a watch to be about 500 +/- years old?
Who would pay alot of money for such a simple-to-assemble and for an old design? No irony there.  |
"Complicated to assemble?"
Well yeah...the
real ones (mechanical) are...hell of a lot more complicated then these damn cars we yap about here. Add things like automatic winding, dates, power reserves, time measurement, diving calculators, multiple timezones, etc....all of which are referred to as "complications"...and consider the size of the case, and yes damn complicated. Take a moment and google "tourbillon" and you might get an appreciation for the
art of watchmaking.