Great Pic and Watches.Cool Design from the Ventura

: That is a very nice pair Molle. I like
: mechanical slide rule watches a lot also.
: Keep them mechanical though as the electric
: ones will go south someday.

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: Even if a steel part for an old watch is no
: longer available, a watch restorer could
: make one.

: With the advances of semiconductor technology
: the production lines for the old parts are
: torn up and thrown away. Even if you had the
: design information of those old ICs there
: are no production lines available to make
: them any more. Of course it is theoretically
: possible to make them again, but the
: investment needed is many, many, many orders
: of magnitude more than you need to make a
: steel or brass part.

: Electronics is throw away technology, even at
: the low temperatures of watch ICs the doping
: will wander with time. At some point one of
: the transistors will stop working and..
: there you have it. In 100 years our
: mechanical watches will all be still working
: or at least servicable. Maybe you will
: replace the springs with newer steel, but
: they will work. The quartz watches all be
: comfortably filling a waste heap somewhere.