GRtak
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What kind of a sadist are you?
What kind of a sadist are you?
Maybe not quiiiite what this thread was intended for, but what the hell. Got myself one of these:
That counts as a watch, right? ... right?
Not for me but since Junior becomes a teenager on Saturday he is getting this bad boy for Christmas.
http://www.agentxwatch.com/collection/le-charme-fatal/agx040-agx043/agx041
Well, it's a custom casing for a miyota quartz movement. They shouldn't be really expensive.
Ooooooh, pretty!
I wonder just how much a dynamo would be able to recharge a li-pol battery. Judging by some horribly failed similarly conceptualized battery packs, probably not that much. Plus, it would only add bulk and it would be positioned right where a bunch of sensors are.
On the topic of breaking watches:
A co-worker and I own Citizen World Chronographs (picture), which are basically digital watches made to look like old school mechanical ones. And he managed to break his watch while he worked near the generator of one of our X-ray tubes. But not in the way you are probably thinking right now.
In short, the generator transforms 400 V AC into up to 60.000 V DC. At some point during that conversion there are two big coils involved. These coils produce a somewhat noticeable magnetic field. Turns out that field was strong enough to break his watch. After he was done, only the minute-hand still worked. Everything else was dead.*
*everything else on his watch. He obviously survived.