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Can I set my watch by that?

• saurik 9y ago
  > “It’s not Swiss watch precision,” said Gerhardt Meurer, an astronomer from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in a press release.
  • thaumasiotes 9y ago
    >> “It’s not Swiss watch precision,” This is a weird case, like "20/20 vision", where the metaphor expresses the opposite of the reality. Swiss watches are so expensive because they're clunkier and less accurate than quartz crystal watches.
    • pc86 9y ago
      Ah, HN pedantry at its finest. Never change.
    • deleted 9y ago
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    • hibbelig 9y ago
      I think the idea is that the Swiss mechanical watches are more precise than other mechanical watches...
• maxander 9y ago
  Score one for the deist "divine watchmaker" idea.