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...
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...
“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...
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 ...