Horological Meandering

Hi All, Tom’s early Incabloc advertisements prompted me to read about shock resistance testing of watches and I thought you might be interested in the information too. ISO 1413:1984 is the common standard employed, but is relatively easy to achieve with m...  

I realize this testing is necessary, but it's hard to watch. Like watching test crashes of your favorite model of automobile. Tom

The JLC test would appear to far exceed the ISO Standard. When you drop a watch from 1 metre, it'll hit that hardwood board at 4.43m/s, which is where JLC set their test. The difference is....they use a huge 3kg mass...or 30 times worse than say a 100gram... 

The ISO standard looks pretty easy to reach, and it's good to see JLC over-engineering their watches in this respect. It also looks like they reached the same conclusion as you did, six years ago. Thanks for the comments. Andrew

I was in that exact same room and saw the test. Dang – they smacked the watch like a golf ball! Really impressive to see what our beloved watches actually can endure if they have to. Best Blomman...  

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“Built to take a beating ..” “Takes a licking and keeps on ticking” Thanks Tony. Love these adverts. Very inventive and keeps your attention – there should be more of it! Through a pane of glass and into water – I guess... 

I removed a watch from a dog's small intestine. As I had not been bitten by the bug, I am not sure what brand it was although I want to say it was a Casio. I don't think it was rated as resistant to stomach acid and digestive juices. The owner did not wan... 

Hi Stewart, You might appreciate this story then - it happens to humans too. [Click to Link ] Andrew

The following discussion was very entertaining as well. I am unfortunately aware of foreign bodies in the colon due to voluntary placement of objects, but seeing an ingested watch is a little suprising. I have heard of people swallowing drugs or precious ...