I was going through some things and found an old watch I haven’t used for a while.
You might find it interesting.
Closer. Note the appropriate roman numerals.
It wants a battery, but it remains amusing…. and exact twice a day!
UPDATE
I was out on errands and got a new battery put in. It runs just fine!
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.” on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…” on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
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Made in China?
dimsum: I don’t think so. It doesn’t say anything on the back. It was made for the Vatican Museum by Art Age.
Gosh, I want one! Where do I get it?
I got it in Rome many years ago. I suspect you are not going to find one.
I could probably be convinced eventually to part with it.
Fr. Z’s auctions?
Zbay?
That’s one way to clean out your house Father. :-)
Jack in KC
Must have been the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989 that put the kabosh on the watch.
“On October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 pm (Pdt) a magnitude 7.1 earthquake severely shook the greater San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas”
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-29/
Zbay? LOL!
AMG: I don’t get that… but… that’s okay.
The watch runs very well. I put a new battery in it today.
AMG:…. oooohhhh… I get it now.
I will see your St. Peter’s watch and raise you one Pope John Paul II bottle opener.
Get it now before the canonization raises the price.
Rob: Does your bottle opener also have a watch?
Fr. Z, Would you trade it for either my Chairman Mao or my Chinese numerals watches? :)
How about my official, autographed, Lester Maddox Wake Up America alarm clock?
dimsum: Would you trade it for either my Chairman Mao
How to put this delicately, so that I don’t have to throw myself out of the combox….
ummm….
NO!
Actually, folks, I remember involving this watch in Z-Chat once and a participant got very excited about it.
Maybe that Z-Bay idea isn’t so bad after all!
The JPII (1990 edition) bottle opener does not have a clock.
I should clarify that it is a “church key” bottle opener – and intended to open soda & beer bottles, not wine bottles.
A truly enterprising individual would release a JPII Santo Subito edition.
Perhaps the folks at Holy Whapping might be interested. (Hope you’re reading this, Matt.)