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: 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!
Just thinking about this from a purely scientific standpoint, I could see how an electromagnetic pulse could affect both quartz and automatics. The quartz watch should stop running since it is a battery operated device. The automatic may continue to run, but the pulse could magnetize the watch, causing it to lose its accuracy. Granted, it would still run since it is purely mechanical, but I would suspect that it would keep far less than perfect time.
Just my thoughts....
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