Retro Motors at Metropolis Mall in Moscow April 1-30, 2017

Retro Motors at Metropolis Mall in Moscow.

I think it will stay on until April 30 and I visited it on April 9, 2017.

It's the fourth major auto show that I have seen since start of blog in 2013.

Here are some car mugshots from short action cam videos I made.

Entire video playlist on this show is here.


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Retro Motors in Moscow at Metropolis Mall Timelapse

A new auto show that I visited a week back or so in Moscow.
These are what you might call the Highlights.

English Language Books at Moscow Book Store

Hey, English books in Moscow!

Except that most are not worth wasting time reading (like JK Rowing's multi-page tomes), not to mention wasted paper, cut-down trees and deforestation.

Time Claims Wristwatch One of the Inventions Came Out of WW1

5 surprising inventions to come out of World War I

 

Wristwatches

Uniforms for soldiers on the battlefield had to hold so many things that pocket watches lost their places. The solution was to adopt something that might have previously made troops turn up their noses. "[Wristwatches] existed before the war, but they were primarily worn by women because they were seen as jewelry," says Cart.

A watch for battle needed to be fairly large with luminous dials that could be seen in the dark. One example of such a timepiece, made by the Elgin National Watch Company of Elgin, Ill., is in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The white numbers are covered in the radioactive substance radium so that they glow in the dark, while a shrapnel guard protects the fragile dial. Wristwatches were used to synchronize movements of artillery and tanks (another invention of World War I, originally designed for agricultural use but then outfitted with armor and guns to transport soldiers across the muddy no man's land).

PTS Resources Limited 2016-17 Watch Movement Catalog

Here is another catalog.

A 2016-17 catalog of watch movements by PTS Resources (manufacturer website).

It makes good viewing and a pretty picture.

Also can be useful to watch buffs for the purposes of watch movement identification. 

PTS Resources - Catalog 2016-17 (opens a PDF file)

Backup link -- PTS Resources Catalog 2016-17

PTS Resources Limited is a Hong Kong-based supplier of watch movements. 

 

The company offers Chinese movements -- pretty much everything from hand-winding movements, to automatics, skeletons and to movements with various complications, including tourbillon movements, as well as movements from other countries.

More information about PTS Resources is on the Chinese Watch Industry Wiki website, including a recent review and an explanation of their caliber designations.

1990 Rotary Dial Telephone

Exploring old technology that still works: a 1990 Rotary Dial Telephone Made in Poland:

Animated Hen White Dove Alarm Clock - Unboxing, Review

Here is another new addition to my watch and clock collection. And it's a mechanical alarm clock with the famous pecking hen dial design which goes back decades but the clock is very new and pretty cheap, the rest is in the video.

Obama's teeth

For real?

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