Some additional Sci-Fi ancedotal evidence...
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Impact of an electromagnetic pulse on quartz watch *LINK* Posted By: Dell Deaton, Negotiator Date: 12/14/05 14:13 GMT
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). You've heard of the term "Speaking in tongues"? Well, you're Speaking in numbers here... I'm assuming the 41 is a quartz and the 31 is an auto...
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." Yup, I remember that.
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? I remember some ancedotial Science Fiction literary evidence. About 15-20 years ago I read David Brin's novel "The Postman" which was later (years after I read the book) turned into the movie that starred Kevin Costner (fortunately I read the reviews and skipped the movie)... Anyway, in the book the lead character wore a "heavy mechanical chronograph" that dated from well before the nuclear apocolypse because all the electronic watches had been rendered useless due to electromagnetic pulse...
So if the EMP effect is just Science Fiction, they are being awfully consistant with one another.
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! Well... Roger Moore wore Seiko and Pulsar Quartz watches about as often as he smoked cigar's on film... So it wasn't the only time 007 wore a quartz model of watch, at least on film...
Cheers and Good Hunting!
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