Swiss Watch found in 400 year old tomb

i guess we talk about past treasure hunters haha


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Absolutely. The story is great. Too great. No harm intended towards the OP. I think we'll be hearing of a simple explanation soon.

Pic from the article:



And here's an ad from a March 1938 edition of Modern Mechanix:



My guess is the tomb was visited by someone after 1938 to 1950 (approx), given the level of oxidation and dirt on the metal.

Here's more info on the article (scroll down for the watch article):

blog.modernmechanix.com...

It's safe to say other varying styles were made after the first ring-watch shown above.


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This guy was swiss and has been involved and organised excavation in china - maybe he has already been to this site and ermm lost his watch??
talks.cam.ac.uk...


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ok suppose someone did find the tomb before the current archaelogist why didnt they go public with the discovery for credit/fame etc?

As a watchmaker with a paltry 30 yrs experience, I can attest that this piece is circa 1950-70 vintage. Besides that, what is the mechanism to distinguish AM from PM. Someone has obviously lost it or perhaps a rodent, "pack rat" found a quiet place to stash his loot and make a nest.....

It would seem to me that if this watch were a modern timepiece, a swiss watch being a little more significant than a wal-mart special, it would have some sort of numbering on it, as to identify it's model and perhaps even give a clue to it's date of production.

If it is a recent production, this would suggest it was planted.

What would really be freaky is if it would be found to have yet to be manufactured.

wait a minute now that you mention it that watch does look like a more recent model because of the rectangular shape like in the article posted above the older ones are circular....... time travelling archaelogist????

well now we know why the tombs are cleared out before the public gets to see them. wouldn't want anyone to know imotep is packin an ipod. and get that 52" plasma out of nebuchadnezzar's tomb before the cameras flash.

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Maybe they found treasure!
Or a time machine

As long as they don't find Data's head in there I won't get too worried.

Actually it's my ring watch, I lent it to Titor and he said he lost it in a hotel room.

haha data's head yeah i was thinking the same,interesting story that i hope doesn't turn out as a hoax.
Somebody could have lost it in the 1930's or something,what about some sort of markings saying a possible date??
Hope this leads to something special

There is no way way the watch is 400 years old. It's too small, that watch wouldve required intricate work with precision and tools not possible in the 17th century. In response to people saying the Swiss wouldnt have written in english, perhaps Swiss was a name, not a brand.

Anyway, I think someone else has been there since then.

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For some reason, your post reminded me of this quote:

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To me, the image attached to the story looks more like a clay carving (or sculpture) rather than a working watch.

Cool concept however, and mind opening story.

Edit: Why isn't this story featured on Yahoo, Google, AOL News? They all like to post stories like these when they are retrieved from valuable news sources (the man on Mars for example). I only can find it hosted on conspiracy websites.

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Thank you for your response. I think your quote serves very well to express what I was saying. Yes, in simple terms, all our suppositions are just that...So we can only go around in circles and no definitive answer is possible.

But I do like articles like that one. It's nice to think of the various "what ifs".

Hmmm..I'll kill two posts with one stone here... Another poster asked why it was that if someone else had discovered the tomb earlier, why didn't they announce it and get the publicity? (Words to that effect.)

Answer: if they were tomb robbers, publicity is the last thing they want, especially in a country like China where they could face execution for stealing National treasures...

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Thanks for amusing me...I am glad you didn't take any offense, as none was intended, to my post.

I find this topic very interesting. I grew up wanting to be an archaeologist, got my degree in the subject, but couldn't live off the meager pay...This strikes me as an item that came to be in the cave at a later date...But the possibilities are much more fun to think about!