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Impact of an electromagnetic pulse on quartz watch *LINK*

No secret here that I believe Q-Branch would have chosen the 2541.80 over the 2531.80 for James Bond's watch "in real life" (and I own the automatic, not the quartz, mind you).

But then I got to thinking about "Goldeneye," and the "electromagnetic pulse" generated during the attack on Severnaya. Remember the scene just before the interrogation and the tank chase sequence, where Natalya Simonova says she was never at Severnaya? Bond responds that her "watch was."

Obviously affected by the pulse, since he noticed. Does anyone know, technically, if this would be true for quartz movements -- and why? Does this also mean that, as bad as things would be if any of us found ourselves in a similar situation, at least those w/ automatics would still be able to know what time it was?

Ironic: One of those times when 007 could have directly benefited from an automatic Omega, and it's the only time he's wearing the quartz model!

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