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When we glance at our wrists to find out the time, we don't even think about the effort and ingenuity that has made it a possibility. From the earliest beginnings with stone circles and sundials, through water dripping and lowering the level in a marked off bowl, to graduated candles that (hopefully!) burned evenly and finally pendulum-driven trickery. And then came the drive from the shipping navigators to be able to accurately tell the time at sea, pendulums being no good in a pitching ship! The huge prize money put up for the first mechanism to solve this drove the invention of the spring-driven clockwork mechanisms still used even in today's world of quartz crystals and electrickery!

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You can customize and personalize all the Zazzle watches posted here.
Instructions
Click the image of the product you like. If it's been designed with a monogram or name there'll usually be a box where you can change them to what you want.

Even if it hasn't got any, you can easily add your name or initials by clicking the customize button you'll see. It's easy peasy and there are loads of fonts to choose from! And you can change the color and style to suit you with just a click!

Friday, June 20, 2014

Ring Nebula (M57) Wrist Watch

Take a look at this fantastic outer space watch design. Click the image to see it large - maybe you'd like to personalize it with your initials? Well feel free, just a couple of simple steps...

Ring Nebula (M57) Wrist Watch


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"The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M57). In this October 1998 image, the telescope has looked down a barrel of gas cast off by a dying star thousands of years ago. This photo reveals elongated dark clumps of material embedded in the gas at the edge of the nebula; the dying central star floating in a blue haze of hot gas. The nebula is about a light-year in diameter and is located some 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lyra."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-1999-01)

Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)

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