Chimaera500
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Have read/ heard the "on the Ball" story quite a few times from various places. No idea if its true but I think the origins of the companies beginnings following the 1891 Ohio rail crash seem to ring true at least.
Good summary of the back story here:
Info on the Kipton Ohio rail crash:
postalmuseum.si.edu
Interesting as this all may be, I just like Ball for how they are built/ look and the glow from the tritium tubes
Absolute accuracy of mechanical wristwatches is a bit irrelevant these days anyway with the very best consistently achieving maybe a second or two per day. Still impressive for a bunch of cogs and a spring mind.
Quartz being many times better, but there are clocks out there that are accurate to less than 1 second in 15 Billion years!
Not the prettiest things on the wrist though
Good summary of the back story here:
Info on the Kipton Ohio rail crash:
The Great Kipton Train Wreck
On April 18, 1891, near Kipton station, 40 miles west of Cleveland, Ohio, the fast mail train #14 collided with the Toledo Express. The fast mail was running at full speed, and the Toledo express was almost at a spot where it would traditionally pull over on a siding to let the fast mail pass...
postalmuseum.si.edu
Interesting as this all may be, I just like Ball for how they are built/ look and the glow from the tritium tubes
Absolute accuracy of mechanical wristwatches is a bit irrelevant these days anyway with the very best consistently achieving maybe a second or two per day. Still impressive for a bunch of cogs and a spring mind.
Quartz being many times better, but there are clocks out there that are accurate to less than 1 second in 15 Billion years!
Not the prettiest things on the wrist though
