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I Talk Nephilim with Sharon Hill; Plus: The Radiocarbon Mysteries of Gunung Padang and My Adventure with a Cheap Chinese Watch

1/2/2017

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​After a long holiday weekend, I don’t really feel up to doing any in-depth investigation today. So instead, please enjoy an interview I recorded with the always interesting Sharon Hill for her 15 Credibility Street podcast. We discussed the Watchers and the Nephilim, along with the long shadow they cast over fringe history claims, from lost civilizations to pyramid mysteries to the quest for giant human remains. 
​I also want to say a quick word about Rebecca Bradley’s fascinating series of blog posts on the archaeology of Gunung Padang, the megalithic Indonesian site that seismologist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, ex-Nazi leader and current Atlantis advocate Frank Joseph, and lost civilization advocate Graham Hancock allege is 20,000 or so years old. Bradley expertly dissects Natawidjaja’s claims, showing that advocates’ geological claims are ill-founded and the so-called pyramid is likely a natural hill topped with a much more recent human building. In her latest post, Bradley explains how Hancock has exaggerated the radiocarbon data, which Natawidjaja seems to have purposely accepted at face value rather than critically analyze it. You’ll have to read Bradley’s post for a breakdown of why the dates are “no more than suggestive” and why the supposed “mortar” holding the “pyramid” together is actually natural, but the best part is the last one: A supposed Ice Age artifact uncovered within the pyramid, at a depth of 11 meters – the depth that Natawidjaja claims goes back to nearly 12,000 BCE, though he revised his estimate of the object’s age to 5200 BCE – is not a ritual disc but a Dutch East Indies-issued coin, minted sometime between 1914 and 1945. “Its presence in deposits which, according to Natawidjaja and Co, are 7000+ years old,” Bradley writes, “strongly suggests that something is rotten in the state of Gunung Padang’s radiocarbon dates.”
 
So, to finish up today, I’d like to talk about my new wristwatch, just because.
 
Nowadays, almost everyone has a cellphone that tells the time. As a result, wristwatches have become fashion accessories more than necessities, but I still prefer to glance at my watch rather than fish the phone out of my pocket to check the time. That said, I didn’t really think much of watches for most of my life. When I was a kid, I had inexpensive quartz watches that would last, in general, about 1-2 years before dying. In high school, I got the wristwatch I wore most of my life, a Nautica. But after seventeen years, I got tired of it (and since watches have grown so much bigger, it stated to get mistaken for a woman’s watch), and it needs both a new strap and battery, which is a big investment in a watch that only cost $50 to begin with. With all the batteries it has eaten over the years, I’ve spent I’ve spent double the watch’s value on batteries, and double again on straps. It’s economically silly.
 
So, in 2012 I “invested” money in a “luxury” wristwatch, a Lucien Piccard (no, not an original from the 1920s), which I got at what the retailer swore was a huge discount. It was just about the usual price for such a watch. It lasted four years, but after its second battery change, it stopped keeping time and would gain or lose half an hour a day, and the date would change irregularly. I didn’t want to waste a ton on another expensive watch just for wearing around the house or out running errands. I have a mechanical dress watch and a 1913 pocket watch that keeps perfect time, but I wanted something cheap, yet still nice looking, that I did not need to worry about breaking, losing, or having stolen. If I had infinite money, I’d have a box of watches for different occasions and in different colors. I do not have infinite money. My father, antique dealer, gave me a couple of midcentury stainless steel mechanical watches. They were aesthetically beautiful, but one ran only two weeks before seizing up, and the other will only run when I am not wearing it. On my wrist, it stops dead. Neither is valuable enough to spend the money to have repaired or rebuilt.
 
After seeing the ridiculous prices for most “quality” new watches, even on the low end, I decided to be adventurous, so I went to eBay and ordered a $12 Chinese “luxury” mechanical watch. I bought a rose-gold (colored) M. G. Orkina skeleton watch, and when it arrived, I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t expecting much, but it shockingly appeared exactly like the glamor photos of it, and it is strikingly beautiful. I actually have had people stop me to ask about it. It also has run well for nearly two weeks. On the other hand, it has flaws. The “genuine leather” strap is clearly a lie. The face is about three degrees off correct alignment. The rose gold accents don’t include the numbers on the dial, the hands, or the gears, which are regular gold color. Oddly, this last fact actually works to its benefit because the face plate is rose gold, and the two-tone colors blend nicely. I am confident that this is an accident. The watch also loses about 30 seconds per day, which I am told is typical for a standard Chinese movement, but noticeably worse than most others.
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My new watch, for however long it lasts.
I’m getting to why I’m telling you this.
 
I was curious if other owners of the watch found that it kept running for a decent amount of time. In reading reviews on Amazon.com and elsewhere, I found that I seem to have lucked out in getting a decent version of the watch. Older models sold a few years ago were cruder (to judge by the photos), broke down quickly, and often had silver-colored gears (because the standard movements were whatever color the bulk order provided), which must have made them quite ugly. Older photos differ from my version, suggesting an increase (probably a small one) in quality. But after the technical issues about crappy cheap watches that arrived broken or died young, the most frequent complaints were utterly bizarre, with the most frequent being this: that the Roman numeral used for 4 was IIII instead of IV. Several people complaining about this for this watch and other similar models claimed to have returned watches for this reason, assuming it is a factory defect! Are we so far removed from history that few remember that analog clocks always used IIII instead of IV? 
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Nineteenth-century watch ad. Note the use of the numeral IIII.
​This is because they follow traditions from before Roman numerals were codified in modern times. In the past, Roman numerals could be expressed in any form that got the job done, but modern people didn’t like that looseness and codified them relatively recently. If you read, for example, old books or look at old cornerstones, you’ll find more than a few that give the century marker for the 1900s as MDCCCC instead of MCM. There are many myths about the use of IIII on clocks, and Mental Floss collects them here.
 
What I can’t figure, though, is why the Chinese companies would purposely make watches that are beautiful on the outside but crappy inside. I get that there is a market for disposable junk, the watch equivalent of costume jewelry. I also understand (but not endorse) that Western companies seem to all informally agree to purposely make affordable watches uglier than expensive ones, even though in many cases the design not correlated to cost, as though to encourage customers to spend more than they can afford. But even a rock bottom quartz drugstore watch will keep time for a few years. The Chinese clearly could make a beautiful watch that lasts for only a few dollars more, and I’d gladly pay $20-$25 for one that would last a few years and look good. Surely there must be style-conscious customers between “extreme cheapskate” and “conspicuous consumption” that are worth catering to, thus undercutting Western watches (many of which are made from Chinese parts) by making stylish ones affordable. If you go up to the $50 range, watch experts who care much more than I do write that the Chinese watches are good enough to last 2-3 years, but at that price, you might as well get one from America, Japan, or Europe, with a warranty they will actually honor, and a better than average chance of lasting 5 years or more.
 
Oh, well. Maybe the Orkina watch will turn out to be as good as it is pretty. But somehow I doubt it. At any rate, it was only $12, including shipping, so whaht the heck, right?
27 Comments
Joe Scales
1/2/2017 11:10:34 am

You don't save money when you buy crap. You are in effect, wasting it.

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David Bradbury
1/2/2017 12:59:18 pm

That's true, but defining "crap" can sometimes be very context-dependent.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
1/3/2017 09:32:02 am

Case in point - Harbor Freight tools. Yes, I know a $20 angle grinder is GIGO, but if it's got a hundred hours of use in it and I only use it an hour a month at most, that's eight years before I buy another cheap angle grinder. I would on the other hand never buy a tool from them that I intend to put to serious strain (trailers, hammers, don't even get me started on machetes...).

Shane Sullivan
1/2/2017 12:44:42 pm

"A supposed Ice Age artifact uncovered within the pyramid, at a depth of 11 meters – the depth that Natawidjaja claims goes back to nearly 12,000 BCE, though he revised his estimate of the object’s age to 5200 BCE – is not a ritual disc but a Dutch East Indies-issued coin, minted sometime between 1914 and 1945."

Crafty time-travelling Dutch Freemasons strike again!

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Tom
1/2/2017 12:54:52 pm

Thank you for the link to Rebecca Bradley's blog regarding Gunung Padang. It is fascinating to see how Messrs Natawidjaja and Hancock transform the ordinary into the extraordinary relying on an exotic location, fake photos and a poor understanding (I am being kind) of the sciences.

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Americanegro
1/2/2017 02:23:44 pm

A cheap watch as a fashion accessory makes no sense to me, but I waste money my way, you do it yours. My personal preference is a basic non-calculator Casio, and when the band dies it becomes a pocket watch. That's what the little pocket on your blue jeans is for.

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Jason Colavito link
1/2/2017 05:21:18 pm

I'm not trying to fool anyone into thinking I'm wearing a mint, but I like the Victorian-influenced steampunk look more than a utilitarian digital watch. It would just be nice if they made ones that worked well.

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Americanegro
1/3/2017 01:42:56 am

That I can understand. Go though with JHVH-1, and sin some more.

"It's a comfort knowing he's out there, sinning for those of us who take it easy."

Dan D'Silva
1/2/2017 02:39:19 pm

I'm... startled. I just looked over at the clock on my wall, which I've had there for I-don't-even-know-how-many years. I always knew it used Roman numerals, but until this moment, it completely escaped my notice that 4 o'clock is IIII on it.

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Uncle Ron
1/2/2017 03:14:34 pm

I have several 60- to 90-year old wrist watches which I have purchased at auctions, and I have put way too much money into a few because I like the retro styling - retro because it IS, not because it was made to look that way. I found a watch advertised in a high end magazine that took my breath away but it cost $114,000.00 so I won't be getting it this month.

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titus pullo
1/2/2017 04:39:20 pm

Oh the watch dilemma. When I was younger in my 30s and doing well before kids I spent way too many hours evaluating watches around the $200 price point. I wanted (actually drooled over)an Omega Speed master because the Apollo guys wore one. I liked the chronometer type for pilots (not that I flew other than as a commercial passenger). But never could justify $2000 bucks for a watch. I wound up buying a Skagan watch for about $200 and it was less reliable than my $40 Timex Iron Man (I loved and still do as I can run with it, swim and just not worry about it at all). Not to be finished I then bought a Swiss Army for about $200 and other than getting a few nice comments it really wasn't any better than the Ironman and the battery went dead much faster. I then won a Sector Watch (they were the "in" watches around $200-300 about 10 years ago) at work. Again the battery lasted about a year.

As I type this on my Mac, I am wearing a 15 year old Iron Man that I've changed the battery maybe 3 times! My advice...if you are going to have a watch, just get a Timex or Casio..hell some of them give you temp, altitude, heart rate, stop watch and so on for less than $100, some give GPS....if you want a watch for "appearance"...why not a Citizen Solar powered, they look pretty good and you don't have to worry about the battery for a few hundred bucks.

Rolex and the rest mechanical are nice to look at but really you can spend money on better things.

And if you fly a lot, taking your watch off at security is such a hassle...

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Jason Colavito link
1/2/2017 05:17:41 pm

I still have my 20-year-old Timex Iron Man in a drawer somewhere!

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Only Me
1/2/2017 05:52:02 pm

Before I listen to your interview, I wanted to say I must be lucky. I have a ProForm watch that is, at best guess, six or seven years old and still running on the original battery. It keeps time a little faster than my clocks, no more than two minutes ahead, but I don't normally wear it, so no biggie.

Thanks for the links to Rebecca's blog. It goes without saying the fringe will accept any claim, no matter how dubious.

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Jason Colavito link
1/2/2017 06:06:14 pm

I think the older a watch gets, the less efficient its battery use. Either that, or they make batteries worse than in the past. I used to get 3-4 years per battery, but it has declined to 1-2 now.

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Weatherwax
1/2/2017 06:43:22 pm

I had a Casio Titanium watch that my mother won for many years. It was great. Kept time, lasted for years. But eventually the band and rubber shielding deteriorated, and that was a problem. It turns out the watches are made to last forever, and they do, but they only make bands and shielding for about 5 years for any given model, so now it's unwearable.

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Denise
1/2/2017 11:01:52 pm

Hey, as a person who has trouble wearing wristwatchs because of wrist issues.....can't you buy replacement bands? Funny thing is though just starting to play steampunk myself, for fun my husband bought me a Tesla wristwatch for Xmas. (yes I am a sci fi fantasy geek as much as a history geek, steampunk fits right in).

Pretty cool looking with light up vacuum tubes a "winding key" which just sets time since it is battery run and a seperate dial for seconds. Obviously not for every day but will work better for some of my outfits than a fobbed watch. I just wish I could keep my great grandma's art deco watch working. Fixed the workings and whitin a week I managed to overwind it. Gggrrr.

Anyway good riddance 2016 and duck and cover for 2017.

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Weatherwax
1/2/2017 11:27:10 pm

"can't you buy replacement bands?"

It's been a few years, but as I recall the bands were not standard. And they were integral with a large rubber shield surrounding the watch, which wasn't available for that model anymore.

An Over-Educated Grunt
1/3/2017 09:38:00 am

Set of tin snips, a belt sander, couple rivets, and a sheet of aircraft-grade aluminum, you could make your own watch band. Reminds me, I really should find mine.

orang
1/3/2017 12:58:57 am

jason,

that really is a slick looking watch. i assume you change your own batteries , don't you? i have had good luck by buying $1 watches at garage sales that don't work (it's a gamble) and bank on the fact that people don't know how to change batteries by themselves and don't want to spend what it costs to have someone do it. I also buy cheap battery packs on ebay and keep them in the freezer so that their shelf life increases.

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Murgatroyd
1/3/2017 08:36:38 am

Buy a portable sun-dial, Jason ...

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Kal
1/4/2017 01:29:44 am

I have just finished the radio show podcast! It is very good. You should make a book on the Nephelim and fringe culture.

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E.P. Grondine
1/5/2017 02:53:11 pm

I always wanted one of those electronic watches with the foreign language phrase book in it, but in the age of ebay the chances of
finding one cheap in a junk shop are nil.

Perhaps the Chinese will come up with an inexpensive self winding mechanical with phases of the Moon and day and date.

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Sandler Smith link
4/29/2019 06:57:23 am

Rolex watches is only one brand which makes your personality unique in every moments like ( office,sports,date)etc . If you have any issue related to your watch repairing or battery replacement always visit on this site. https://www.w1watches.com/battery-replacement

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Sell Cartier Watch London link
5/28/2019 05:44:26 am

This watch provides a complicated look at a low cost. It sports a simple, silver band with black face and red digits.

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Sell Cartier Watch link
7/3/2019 05:29:37 am

Cartier watches are fashionable and cheap. Their fashion ability soon had though a boomerang effect and soon after these watches came out of fashion.

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Loan Against My Watch link
7/26/2019 04:31:13 am

Pawnbrokers give special offer in low interest loan to needy people for pawning the luxury watches , according to the price of the watches and they give loan instantly.

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9/16/2019 05:30:27 am

If you have any type of issue in your watch and want to repair or change battery instantly. Always consult with professional watchmakers because they capability to repair watch at reasonable charges.

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