What happened the only time a Timex watch took a licking and did NOT keep on ticking on television?
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Across the decades, thousands of viewers wrote the company, proposing scenarios for future torture tests. The ad campaign ended in 1977, with a "failure" that had been planned in advance. In the commercial, an elephant stomped on—and completely crushed—a Timex, at which point Swayze informed the television audience, "It worked in rehearsal."
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Blank Pictures of alarm clocks.\n\nhttp://www.blackdog.net/games/clock/worksheets/fourclocks.gif
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Is your pulse back to normal? Was an actual actuary actually speaking, or was it an acting actuary, actually? You do know how to find entertainment. Did you pay to hear the actuary speak? I get excited watching paint dry (has to be semi gloss latex), but to listen to a real live (but not too alive) actuary, well nothing could top that. What are the chances that this actuary will live until he is 80 and is not involved anytime soon in a life threatening accident. Did you do the math? Is he  into extreme sports such as Chinese Checkers and Connect Four? I wish I had chosen that as my career path, instead I am stuck in  the same old same old as a Formula One race car driver. Some people have all the luck.
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ROFLMAO! Do you mind if I re-write that for my Atheist chick-tracts?\n\nFor the guy above me... \n-The Watchmaker, by Rev. Jim Huber-\n\nWhile walking through the park, I found a watch. Watches (in my experience) do not simply spring into existence alongside the path. Someone of fairly high intelligence must have made the watch, then left it there. Wondering why someone might do such a thing, I decided to find the Watchmaker.\n\nLuck was with me. On the way home I saw an advertisement for similar watches available free (with the purchase of a meal) at a popular fast-food chain. I went to the nearest franchise and asked to see the Watchmaker. The counter-person was not helpful. "Dude, there's no Watchmaker here, we just pull 'em out of a box."\n\nI expressed my conviction that the watch could not simply happen. There must be a Watchmaker. The manager (who took an interest when I began to raise my voice) was able to shed some light on the matter. "Sir, we receive these watches from corporate headquarters in Vermont. If you want to find the Watchmaker, you will have to contact them."\n\nA very nice person at corporate headquarters was able to refer me to her contact at an import company, who referred me to his contact at a Far-Eastern manufacturing firm. Once I convinced him that I was not investigating his company's employment practices, he was kind enough to provide me with a description of their manufacturing process.\n\nThe watches were assembled by unskilled workers paid the equivalent of about two dollars a day. (For some reason my contact thought it was important to point out that this is nearly one-and-a-half times the local minimum wage.) The watch band, case, and face were injection molded in an automated process. The electronic portion of the watch was purchased in bulk from another company.\n\nContacting that company, I found that the electronic portions were produced on an assembly-line using a combination of industrial robots and semi-skilled labor.\n\nThe microchips were cut from blanks grown from vats of molten silicon and traces of other elements. The machinery that did this is impressive, but it did not build the blanks so much as control the environment so that the silicon could assemble itself.\n\nThe control circuitry is photo etched on to the silicon chips. The photo etchers are fairly complex, as machines go, but hardly intelligent. The operators of these machines are better trained than the laborers who assemble the finished product. However, their knowledge is limited to running the machines. They had nothing to do with the design of the watch.\n\nThe doohickey that counts off the seconds is a small bit of quartz. Quartz is a naturally occurring crystal that vibrates at a constant rate when an electric current passes through it.\n\nI'm sure all the folks involved in the manufacture of the watch were quite competent. Many of the folks I talked to seemed quite intelligent; but none of the people directly involved in the watch's manufacture would have been able to make a watch themselves from scratch. No one I had talked to so far was truly the Watchmaker.\n\nThe engineer who actually produced the design was knowledgeable and helpful. Unfortunately, his enthusiastic description of the process of circuit design was largely beyond me. I was able to glean two important facts: First, he used a computer aided design system. Second, his design was an enhancement of a previous design by another engineer, who based her design on an even earlier design, and so on; back through several decades.\n\nThe engineer was also able to provide me with a very interesting pamphlet entitled A brief history of time-keeping. This pamphlet traced the development of quartz clocks and watches back to a team of designers in the sixties. It went on to trace time-pieces in general back to the water-clocks of the ancient Greeks. It even contained a little speculation about the prehistoric people who
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This picture should answer your question:\n\nhttp://chronwatch.com/content/images-uploaded/ATT00015.jpg
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i love the show! did you see it on Monday? when the alarm went on and the handle broke i thought they were goners. luckily Michael was the 2ND to last  ;>
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there is no heads or tails . it was a special coin with texas on one side and cali on the other side. it landed texas face up.\nwhat would have happened if the coin landed on its side. that happened in a twilight zone show. it was real kewl.
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Timex in Waterbury CT
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Refer to the polar range of watches. I have one they are absolutely great. Go on ebay and you can choose all the functions you are after. They start basic and work there way up to mini computers. \n\nGood luck!
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twice in my 45 years of kicking around...however many more times I didn't see one but felt like there was one there...\n\nnow for a true story two weeks after my oldest son was murdered at 3 in the morning; the hour that he died every alarm clock in the house went off but when checked they were all stuck at midnight...was the only thing like that to ever happen before or since....
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We do every day.  Look at your watch.       Wait  5 minutes and look again. YYou have just traveled.
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Mine was a Tyco Glow in the Dark race car track, the one with a loop de do.I pulled on my moms leg for like two months for this. I never forget when I unwrapped it. I just about crapped my pants. I still have one of the cars. Don't know what happened to the track though. I wish I still had it.
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Mary had a strapless watch\nShe dropped it on the fender\nWhen she bent to pick it up\nPING went her suspender.\n\nMary had a strapless watch\nShe pinned it to her garter\nWhen the boys asked her the time\nShe knew what they were after!
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Hi ,\n  The problem seems with the CMOS battery.As u said u were not using it for days, the battery may have discharged. So it is causing the problem. Its like the CMOS battery is responsible for the date and time setup if it dont gives proper backup the time and date resets to start of the century or in some of case it goes to any unwanted date by randomely selecting it. \n  So change the CMOS battery n it will go fine.If u dont know how to change it open ur PC cabinate n  u will see   a shining roung thing just like ur watch battery but it will be a bit big. Take it out a take care while takin it out n  replace it by new one.\n  And you are done.......
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And now I will open my retirement gift. \n(open gift and look inside)\nAll them years I put into the company and you damn cheapskates give me a watch that doesn't even run??? What the hell??!!!
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You look at your watch.\nReally, on a 24-hour scale.
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it contains a chronograph, aka stopwatch.  The 'chrono' usually refers to an analog watch (the kind with hands) with 3 smaller dials on the inside of the watch face.\n\ntry timex.com