That's really funny, I wear a fake Rolex, the watch-repairer looked at it and initially refused to open it because he thought "¡Es un reloj automático!" but I s

That's really funny, I wear a fake Rolex, the watch-repairer looked at it and initially refused to open it because he thought "¡Es un reloj automático!" but I set him straight no it's a fake, you can for sure fix this. He did, I frankly wouldn't wear a genuine...the faster-tiny ticking is cool...but, uh, you could do that with that same oscillator anyway. And the complications, at the present moment I write this I just think they're stupid. Stupidifications, that's how I see them now. Maybe I'll change my mind, I think I will. The only advantage to a genuine mechanical watch is surviving uh...solar flares and EMPs. That's cool, hey maybe someday that'll matter. Especially solar flares, because that fucks with the light from the sky, like it did in the 19th century. Anyway, it'll matter, but not yet. Also, there's expensive oscillators with much lower time variation, they're like $60 for a 100x lower Tau (I think it's called Tau, there's a whole language I don't understand). Same size, basically. Just two wires. That's the whole luxury element of a watch in it's essence, the idea you are getting time from it, the luxury of time. Jules Verne talks about this, in Around the World in 80 Days, there's a watch that loses a second per year. You could do that for real with that oscillator. To say nothing of the CSAC 45 chip on the market, kind of big, but somebody made a clock that loses a second per...million years or something, out of that. It just looks ugly, is the problem. Too big. Hey maybe it'll be cool to wear!