Swiss watch found in 400-year-old tomb

Swiss watch found in 400-year-old tomb

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Archeologists in China are baffled after finding a tiny Swiss watch in a 400-year-old tomb.

The tiny Swiss watch found in a 400-year-old tomb /Quirky China News

The watch ring was discovered as archeologists were making a documentary with two journalists from Shangsi town.

"When we tried to remove the soil wrapped around the coffin, a piece of rock suddenly dropped off and hit the ground with a metallic sound,? said Jiang Yanyu, former curator of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Museum.

"We picked up the object, and found it was a ring. After removing the covering soil and examining it further, we were shocked to see it was a watch."

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It could be that there really is time travel technology knocking about. Some speculate that the the technology must be already existing for someone from the future to arrive using the devise as a gateway.

If the claim of Jiang Yanyu is true then that would suggest that having a working gateway would not be necessary to travel to the past or someone to arrive from the future.



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Well this sure has me scratching my head. I'll be very interested to know what they conclude. What I find especially interesting is that it looks like one of those watch rings that you can purchase present day. Were the even to make a working watch that small 400 yrs. ago. Though I would love to say it was time travel I won't speculate till they spend a little more time investigating. Great find though, thank you.

sounds like another oopart. more and more of them seem to be turning up

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! This is so weird. I have seen that youtube video on out of place objects and it has some strange ones and this ranks right up there as one of the strangest. I would like to say there is a logical reason for this but it really hard to come up with one.

Local experts say they are confused as they believe the tomb had been undisturbed since it was created during the Ming dynasty 400 years ago.

Well first off, it couldn't have been a Swiss watch, cause they never quit working.

But what really happened is that sometime later, a Swiss-watch-wearing grave robber found a better watch in the tomb, and tossed his raggedy old Swiss aside- to come tumbling down in this later dig.

They have suspended the dig and are waiting for experts to arrive from Beijing and help them unravel the mystery.

Hmm, well maybe they could take a look at this, which establishes that Swiss watches were manufactured 400 years ago, just in case anyone was wondering:

www.love-watches.com...

Jacob Zech, a Swiss mechanic, living at Prague in Bohemia, Austria, about 1525, began studying the problem of the equalization of watch mechanism. He was sure that there ought to be some better means than that of the clumsy stackfreed. Presently he hit upon the principle of the fusee, and Gruet, another Swiss, perfected it.

At last it became possible to make a watch that would not run fast when first wound and then go more and more slowly as it ran down--and to do this in a really practical way. Before this time, a watch was a clumsy piece of ticking jewelry; now it became something of a real time-keeper. Therefore, it was not long before people began to want Swiss watches.

These were the days when skilful Swiss craftsmen worked patiently in their little home shops, making some single watch-part and making it extremely well, while the so-called "manufacturer" bought up these separate parts, and assembled them into watches.

Just sayin....

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To me its not that weird if they found a watch but the size of this watch is what seems strange to me. I didnt realize they could make watches that small 400 years ago. And if they could, you would think that something of that quality would have significant value, making it easy to narrow down the manufacturer/buyer/owner. I can imagine many people 400 years ago in this area had the funds to have a tiny swiss made watch imported and they why would they wear something of such value while in a cave. Unless it was left as a tribute.
Strange nonetheless.

Dont mean to seem rude but this story has already been posted at the below link

www.abovetopsecret.com...

This topic is already posted. Please add your comments to the existing discussion.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Thread closed.

I opened this thread again because we do allow one thread in Breaking News and another in a different forum.

Please continue with the discussion.

First we need to determine when/where the watch was made.

Second, remember, usually the simplest explanation is the accurate one.

How about the watch got there from a grave robber or archeologist.

A pic of the watch would be nice too. A pocket watch could be well over 100 years old...............

Does it still work?

If it doesn't, those Swiss engineers need their balls squeezing.

Four hundred #ing years eh? Mind you, if it doesn't work, a quick tap with the 'Paris hammer' might do the trick?

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A pic is in the article itself. It's a tiny watch.

Indeed very odd the watch is rather small.

Originally posted by mrmonsoon
A pic of the watch would be nice too. A pocket watch could be well over 100 years old...............

Follow the link there is a picture in the original article.

Yay, more stuff to suggest all is not right with the world

Or rather, things are right, but we just are not being properly informed...

I'm rather intrigued to find out if it turns out to be really old or just very recent.. but explaining it's placing, eirther way, is gonna be a bit of a conundrum.....

There is already an active thread on this:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

The time was stopped at 10:06am, and on the back was engraved the word "Swiss", reports the People's Daily

10:06 x 2 = 20:12 (2012)

I think it must be a mistake. Someone must have dropped it in the past or it was planted there for "shock" value. Sorry, I just think it is impossible to believe.

[edit on 12/16/2008 by PammyK]

Are there any other photos of this watch? We must wait on proof.

The photo shows a modern ring-watch. They have been around for a while and I have seen one from the 1950s. You can buy cheap ones over the internet and were very popular in Asia in the 1990s.

Most likely the ring was lost recently by some one digging the clay(?) soil of the tomb. While clay can be rock solid in the summer, when it is wet, rings, shoes, watches, etc. can get lost in it.


What puzzles me is that a 'tomb robber' appears to have dug around the tomb yet the artefacts appear not to be disturbed. I am of the mind that someone is trying to pull a fast one.




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