“Last week I serviced and repaired a Waltham pocketwatch designed and made in 1857——”
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I have one from 1914 that still works.
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I firmly blelieve that if we went, in the Delorean time machine, back to 1857 and met the foreman at the old Waltham plant and told him we were from 2016 he would be amazed.
If we told him that watch the worker is assembling would “STILL be working as new in 2016, can you believe it?”
I think he would be furious, exclaiming, “Why are you so surprised it’s still going...of course it is still going..it is supposed to. We don’t build junk here you know.”