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swiss observatories in 1967/8: you can't just waltz in here with a non-swiss made movement and win all our competitions for watch movement accuracy!

seiko: haha rock go brr

(the swiss stopped having competitions for watch accuracy after seiko wandered in with quartz movements and won fucking everything)

I wonder if the preppers/survivalists are having a good time or if they're just as bored as the rest of us

in the future we'll all live underwater and instead of using a computer we'll use a scubuter

seriously, this thing is so incredibly complicated the fact that it has a tourbillon is at the bottom of the feature list

'cause of course it has a tourbillon

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oh yeah, the easter complication? it's in both the julian and gregorian calendars, which gives two different possible dates

'cause at this point why the hell not

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Technically I should be posting about this next week, but eh, close enough

This is the Konstantin Chaykin Moscow Comptus Easter Clock

This thing has 26 different indications on it, including the date of orthodox easter, starmap, analemma, and length of day

monochrome-watches.com/konstan

It's incredible

super bad pun, deep watch nerdery 

I got a lot of my watch collection from the sacrifice of a messiah

You see, Jesus died for my Sinns

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