Too accurate. Three-Body?

mwillems · Mar 31, 2024

Hi all fellow fans.

I bought two vintage Omegas in the last month. 1967 and 1969 Seamasters. Original parts, both from dealers, and both recently serviced (in the past month and a half).

…and they are great. In fact, they are too great. They make me feel like I’m in some Science Fiction story. Because both of them have lost or gained not even one second in an entire week. Zero.

So now I dare not take the automatic off, and I dare not stop the daily winding of the hand-wound version. I think that somehow if I take them off or stop winding, I’ll spoil this perfect performance.

Help! 😀

Seriously though: This “beyond COSC” performance is surprising. Pleasantly so, but still surprising.

Thoughts?

PS the second hands aren’t the same because these are not hacking watches. But they’re accurate.

kaplan · Mar 31, 2024

You can apply a little pressure in time setting mode, backwards, and stop the seconds hands by the way - so in a way they are all hacking if you hack the problem

sheepdoll · Mar 31, 2024

Sometimes I feel I live in the future in a fictional country. (at least from a 13th century point of view.)

I used to do the AV for Contact,cultures of the imagination which was the main SETI confrence. Held at Nasa Ames. Does make one question the illusion of free will.

Clocks do measure gravitational variation. Nostradamus used a pendulum over his scrying bowl of water. Watches on the other hand measure the inertia of the spring oscillator. Otherwise they would not work in space or on the moon.

Most first contact situations on the other hand are as interesting as talking to trees talking birds. As soon as one introduces humans into the test it basically turns into a B movie.

I have however been enjoying three body. Interstellar on the other hand had no third act. The problem is that there is no way round the relative nature of time, and the distances are too large without some sort of deus ex Machina. Especially when Gravity does not exist.

perhaps you found it.

josiahg52 · Mar 31, 2024

My '69 and my Replica both operate similarly. 0 SPD - at worst, +/- 1 SPD - when wearing them.

mwillems · Mar 31, 2024

sheepdoll
Sometimes I feel I live in the future in a fictional country. (at least from a 13th century point of view.)

….

I have however been enjoying three body.

Me too, but the Chinese version.

mwillems · Mar 31, 2024

sheepdoll
Sometimes I feel I live in the future in a fictional country. (at least from a 13th century point of view.)

I used to do the AV for Contact,cultures of the imagination which was the main SETI confrence. Held at Nasa Ames. Does make one question the illusion of free will.

Clocks do measure gravitational variation. Nostradamus used a pendulum over his scrying bowl of water. Watches on the other hand measure the inertia of the spring oscillator. Otherwise they would not work in space or on the moon.

Most first contact situations on the other hand are as interesting as talking to trees talking birds. As soon as one introduces humans into the test it basically turns into a B movie.

I have however been enjoying three body. Interstellar on the other hand had no third act. The problem is that there is no way round the relative nature of time, and the distances are too large without some sort of deus ex Machina. Especially when Gravity does not exist.

perhaps you found it.

Well… that would be a Deus IN Machina, surely.

Too accurate. Three-Body?

mwillems

kaplan

sheepdoll

josiahg52

mwillems

mwillems

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