MoT's WDF

I saw this pic of the Venezuelan president and can't tell what he's wearing:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... ks-mexico/

I kind of assumed Rolex Daytona for a South American quasi-dictator, but to me it sorta looks like an eco drive?

Casios at the evacuation in Afghanistan. Source: https://journalstar.com/news/state-and- ... c5ac9.html

ManOnTime wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:49 pm

Boourns wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:40 am You thought your HAQ was good? How about +/- 4 nanoseconds per 20 days?

One of the key goals of the Deep Space Atomic Clock mission was to measure the clock’s stability over longer and longer periods, to see how it changes with time. In the new paper, the team reports a level of stability that leads to a time deviation of less than four nanoseconds after more than 20 days of operation.

That works out to 73 nanoseconds per year. If my math is correct, that means you'd be off a whole second after 13.7 million years.

jpl.nasa.gov/news/deep-space-atomic-clock-moves-toward-increased-spacecraft-autonomy

The NPL-CsF2 caesium fountain clock with it's +/- 1s in 138,000,000 year accuracy laughs at the pathetic Deep Space Atomic Clock.

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Yeah, but I'll still manage to be late for lunch.

The Sultan of SoWhat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:12 pm
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Yeah, but I'll still manage to be late for lunch.

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
- Douglas Adams

The Sultan of SoWhat wrote:

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Is he chewing on his trophy?!?

I have just realized my lack of success in tennis:

I always took my watch off when I played.

Robotaz wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 5:40 am

The Sultan of SoWhat wrote:Screen Shot 2022-02-02 at 12.19.37 AM.png

Is he chewing on his trophy?!?

Yes, he always bites the trophy for pics. He's been doing that for as long as I can remember.

If you have about $77,000 in spare change lying around, you might be interested in this watch:

HYT introduced Hastroid, a 27-piece limited-edition watch, each priced at $77,000. As with previous HYT designs, it showcased the brand’s unusual technology: The hours are indicated by the flow of a fluorescent liquid through a capillary tube, powered by a mechanical movement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/fash ... rland.html

From the NY Times:

Marvin Schneider is the New York City clock master. And he is not happy about daylight saving time.

“It’s an inconvenience,” he said. “And getting used to the change is an inconvenience.” It always takes him a couple of days to adjust, he said.
. . .

Schneider, 82, a per-diem municipal employee who is paid about $40 an hour, once said that he liked his clocks to be accurate but set them “to the nearest 10 seconds” using an Omega wristwatch.

He still checks the Omega. But now he has also a cellphone that he uses to “get it very, very close.”

“Not a Luddite,” he said.

Russia seizes Audemars Piguet watches in apparent retaliation for Swiss sanctions
Timepieces worth millions of dollars were taken by FSB agents, according to a Swiss paper

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... -sanctions

Rolex Prices

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/styl ... -boom.html

The Sultan of SoWhat wrote:Russia seizes Audemars Piguet watches in apparent retaliation for Swiss sanctions
Timepieces worth millions of dollars were taken by FSB agents, according to a Swiss paper

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... -sanctions

Brilliant strategy. Taken from the Kim playbook in North Korea. Make everyone hate you even more and less likely to normalize relations.

A Nazi Soldier Stole a Watch in 1942. It Turned Up 80 Years Later.
The watch, made as a gift in 1910, has been returned to the maker’s family in the Netherlands. It still works.


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/worl ... lands.html

If you've got the gelt . . .

John Demsey, the beauty executive who became an industry goliath by turning MAC Cosmetics into one of Estée Lauder’s biggest subsidiaries, spent much of the first year of the pandemic in his home doing things that befit a high-flying corporate executive: Zooming with colleagues, bringing home a goldendoodle, adding to his collection of Audemars Piguets and Rolexes.

NY Times