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Post by seikoholic on Aug 20, 2014 19:26:36 GMT -8
Who's narrating this thing?
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trandy
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Post by trandy on Aug 20, 2014 19:49:09 GMT -8
It does sound like Martin Sheen....he's done a lot of "voice over" work throughout the years.
Where in the world did you find that?
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dasher
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Post by dasher on Aug 21, 2014 6:56:28 GMT -8
It does sound like Martin Sheen....he's done a lot of "voice over" work throughout the years. Where in the world did you find that? There seem to be a lot of commercials on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1INXPg_krSg#t=36 |
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Post by dringer on Aug 21, 2014 17:04:39 GMT -8
"Someday all watches will be made this way."
Yes, I remember that line. Frankly, it was exciting at the time.
It was also wrong - or at least not yet.
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Post by seikoholic on Aug 22, 2014 7:29:25 GMT -8
"Someday all watches will be made this way." Yes, I remember that line. Frankly, it was exciting at the time. It was also wrong - or at least not yet. Reports of the death of mechanical timekeeping were premature. I mean, time can be told from smartphones. Watches are an anachronism (heh) now, decorative rather than truly functional. And in a way, the ad was correct. Real timekeeping is done world-wide by electronic means, by measurement of quartz vibrations and atomic time, not by the power in a mainspring pushing a gear train that is regulated by a balance and displays time by the means of analog hands. |
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Post by ninja01 on Aug 22, 2014 15:46:49 GMT -8
"Someday all watches will be made this way." Yes, I remember that line. Frankly, it was exciting at the time. It was also wrong - or at least not yet. Reports of the death of mechanical timekeeping were premature. I mean, time can be told from smartphones. Watches are an anachronism (heh) now, decorative rather than truly functional. And in a way, the ad was correct. Real timekeeping is done world-wide by electronic means, by measurement of quartz vibrations and atomic time, not by the power in a mainspring pushing a gear train that is regulated by a balance and displays time by the means of analog hands. You may get some enjoyment out of one of my old posts @ Dr. Seiko then: seikoholics.yuku.com/topic/811/It-is-hard-to-love-a-quartz-timepiece#.U_fU3KNpvNE"It is hard to love a quartz timepiece." Well, those are the words of David S. Landes in his 1983 book, REVOLUTION IN TIME, Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. and so on ... The thread continues on into "Semiconductor development & what it did for Quartz" citing info from Microchip by Jeffrey Zygmont [published in 2003] Enjoy!! |
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