Why I love great watches and clocks...

River0

... because they're insanely precise and beautiful. Until oceangoing chronomters were invented, entire fleets of ships ran aground and sank. They had no way to know their longitude; how far east or west they were from any coast or reef. It's a fascinating story:  https://youtu.be/D-i-emUOTfk

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