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Thread: The World's First True Atomic Wristwatch

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    I wonder whether it has the smoothest sweep ever? Be a shame for it to be a ticker.....

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    I can see it now...IWL in 20 years and we'll be getting threads 'please help - my watch is loosing a nano second a day'

    Sent from my GT-I9505

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    Quote Originally Posted by pepperami View Post
    I can see it now...IWL in 20 years and we'll be getting threads 'please help - my watch is loosing a nano second a day'

    Sent from my GT-I9505
    Or, "which is better: cesium or Rolex?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan View Post
    Or, "which is better: cesium or Rolex?"
    This watch contains Cesium 133, but Rolex would have their own in-house Cesium 904L...

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    It's interesting...but it also seems like it's solving a problem that doesn't exist. While we want our watches to be accurate I don't think the average person willing to pay $6k for a watch is needing or wanting this level of accuracy.

    In this case size does matter and I don't think many people want to strap something that large onto their wrist.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Perseus View Post
    It's interesting...but it also seems like it's solving a problem that doesn't exist.
    This

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    Looks like my wife's coin purse......
    "Either He's Dead, Or My Watch Has Stopped....."
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    Quote Originally Posted by tribe125 View Post
    It seems so:

    While Richard Hoptroff can be credited with producing the world's first timepiece with an on-board atomic clock, it was Bathys Hawaii that officially produced the first atomic clock wrist watch. Hoptroff wasn't too happy about that, as I understand it, so he pushed forward to have the first commercially produced atomic clock wrist watch with the Hoptroff No. 16
    http://www.ablogtowatch.com/hoptroff...-year-accuracy

    Both have the same basic shape as they must accomodate the CSAC chip:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Nokie View Post
    Looks like my wife's coin purse......
    You're not talking euphemistically are you Nokie ?

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