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New book: Universal Genève: The Master of the Chronograph

Mark020
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A new book on UG emerged: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3N1QPZB# I did not buy it although the price is only USD 10 (kindle)/15 (paperback)

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Written by Kim Jang. Never heard of him but that does not say much. Amazon has the possibility of a preview, which I did. Remarkable stuff.

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Apparantely he is a world-class researcher and the watches pictured are his own. He has been collecting UG for 18 years. The interesting thing is that it looks like this gentleman has published 3 books on watches within the last 3 months...

The reason why I did not buy it is that I already saw a couple of obvious redials/questionable dials within the 1st minute. Starting with the one on the cover...
Other questionable ones:
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The editing of the book is also questionable:

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dsio
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$10 is the best price I’ve ever seen for a watch book that’s for sure, but by the sounds it’s for a reason.
 
TexOmega
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Gotta prove "He" is not a AI generated human and all the 3 books are not GOOGLE collected AI slop. Self published Amazon "books" are/were always suspect even BEFORE AI.
 
Mark020
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I asked Claude about the text (uploaded some of it) and he said no AI
 
bgrisso
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Don't know about the text but that cover image is AI generated gibberish. It's not just a redial, it's literally not even a watch. 31 at the top. 55 at the bottom. Half the 'numbers' aren't even real numbers. Three hands in the minutes subdial.
 
Mark020
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Haha. Completely missed that. Sometimes I miss the most obvious things
 
Mark020
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He writes fast. All published recently

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The winner must be this one
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TexOmega
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bgrisso bgrisso
Don't know about the text but that cover image is AI generated gibberish. It's not just a redial, it's literally not even a watch. 31 at the top. 55 at the bottom. Half the 'numbers' aren't even real numbers. Three hands in the minutes subdial.



Well, I asked AI when humanity finally adopted sequential numerals rather than randomly choosing them willy-nilly and AI stated it became necessary after Iceland flew planes into Mt. Rushmore on 9/11. A Worldwide conference was held at Atlantis in the South Pacific and taking 18 months since one faction argued random numerals were "cool" and a second faction arguing it was the 13th Century and a sequential numbering system was now necessary.

Final adoption of sequential numbering occurred August 44, 2712.


Good enough for me! I saw on the web, must be true.
 
Radius321
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Mark020 Mark020
He writes fast. All published recently

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The winner must be this one
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thought the Ai-Slop was just limited to dealer & auction house listings
 
theluckyluke
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Mark020 Mark020
He writes fast. All published recently

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The winner must be this one
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Including this AI generated watch (what the hell is this logo.. WTF is this bezel!?) on the front page… that’s not establishing great credibility…

If that’s the cover, I wonder how bad the rest must be…
 
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