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Post by koimaster on Nov 24, 2007 14:54:23 GMT -5
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Post by foghorn on Nov 24, 2007 15:09:01 GMT -5
The torture test has become a WIS classic. |
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Post by arielr22 on Nov 24, 2007 15:25:57 GMT -5
VERY interesting. Guess he also has alot of time on his hands.. ;D
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Post by 13echo on Nov 24, 2007 16:38:16 GMT -5
Invicta's Hannibal Lectar.
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timebender
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Post by timebender on Nov 25, 2007 8:17:07 GMT -5
 I had never seen this before. Funny thing is when I saw the title on the thread I thought what I was going to find posted was a clip of Eyal pitching Invicta's on TV! 
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Post by gradyphilpott on Nov 25, 2007 17:06:00 GMT -5
The experiment is not strange in itself. It's his rationale for using a watch in his collection to conduct the experiment.
Honestly, I don't think it proved much.
In fact, freezing the watch in water would seem to me to keep the watch insulated from the ambient air, so that whatever temperature the watch reached in the freezer, it was probably much lower than the 0F to -5F degrees he said he freezer would maintain.
Also, failing to establish a base line for the watch's performance seems to be an oversight one would not expect from anyone with any kind of scientific or even academic background, for that matter.
Nevertheless, we now know that one can wrap one's Invicta 9373 in a zip-loc bag, place it in a bowl of water, freeze it to an unknown temperature, not less than -5F degrees, transfer the watch to a pot of hot water, roughly the temperature of a sauna or steam bath and it will keep lousy time by any modern standard.
Of course, we don't know whether the watch was affected in any way at all by the process described on the website, because we have no baseline for the performance of the watch under normal conditions over a 24 hour period.
Was the watch affected by temperature variance or variance in mainspring tension, or both?
Who can say?
Taking hardy tourists to the summit of Mt. Everest has become a cottage industry of sorts, so we could contact a Sherpa who might agree to wear an Invicta on an expedition and report the findings to us.
We could pitch in for the expenses.
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I had never seen this before.
