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Yes, this one is going to be problematical, I think.
Oh well, never mind. It is another wrist watch.
So as well as collecting novelties, I have got a collection of wristwatches
and some of these are very bizarre.
I have to say I do not wear any of these watches, they are just kept to show people.
So the first one, which I am still trying to sort out, is called a relativity watch.
It is a gentle joke on Einstein and relativity, with a clock face that is moving all the time
which is very strange.
It shows one, two, pi, four, five six etc. So the hands move at the normal very slow pace,
but the face of the clock, that goes round at one beat per second.
Very strange. How on earth do you work out the time from that? It beats me!
But that is the idea. It is a little joke I think.
This one I have actually used for quite a number of years and I have just about got
used to it, but at the start it was quite difficult.
It is a digital watch. There is no clock face,
there are just little rows of lights, in a binary form.
The top row is the hours, one two, four, eight... so the one is lit up and the four is lit up,
one and four, that is five, so it is 5 o'clock... and something or other.
The bottom row is the minutes. One, two, four, eight, sixteen and thirty two.
Well, there is 32 lit up, and 2 and 1, so that is 35 minutes past 5 I would guess.
But I have to say that when I first got this wristwatch, it took me a minute or two
to work out what the time was.
By which time it was a minute or two later! Never mind. It is a bit of fun.
Now the next one is a backwards watch. Which at the time,
I got this is about 20 years ago, was very rare indeed.
This was the first one I ever came across. It is a wind up one. I have to say there are
quite a lot of these on the market now.
So it is quite fun, because the second hand, the red one,
is going round click click click backwards clearly,
and all the others [hands of the watch] will go backwards as well.
And the clock face is also backwards.
So it keeps good time but it is a backwards watch.
There is one here with a lot of batteries involved, and it is called Peaceful,
for some reason.
It is an ordinary watch, but there are two very strong lights in it.
This one here which is a good illumination for finding something in the dark I guess,
and the other one is extraordinary.
It is an ultra violet light, which I suppose is useful for detecting fraudulent banknotes
or something like that.
It takes a lot of battery power I have to say. But it is a novel watch,
and both those lights could be useful.
The next one is a world watch, for world travellers.
And it has got little time zones - it has got London at the top,
which you can set to any hour, and then Paris an hour ahead of us,
and so on, all the way around to the far side of the world.
And as you turn this you can turn the hour - there is only an hour hand on this,
there are no minutes - and this also changes the time zones.
So I will set it for London at the top, 12 o'clock,
and then you will see that it is 1 o'clock in Paris, and 2 o'clock in Berlin, etc.
A world watch. Quite useful.
The last one is very bizarre, because it has not got any mechanism at all.
There is nothing at the back, there is no winding mechanism, no batteries.
It is a sun dial wrist watch, a bit tongue in cheek!
The trouble with this one is that you have to know where north is,
and you have got to have the sun shining.
Well, we will get the sun shining and hope north is somewhere over there...
and then as the sun hits that little gnomon you can see it makes a nice shadow,
which will tell you roughly what the time is.
Well it is a bit of a joke. I am still looking for a luminous version of this though.
Have you seen one?