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.
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 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.
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.
But for lack of funds, I would have bought the Spies, Heroes of German Resistance, French Resistance, JFK and probably some others but actually bought only three Russian-themed decks.
As am also into radios as much as I am into watches so here's my 1993 VEF-221-1 World Band Radio, Unboxing and Using for first time in a couple of decades in a Russian-language video.
More info is via that link above but I am also going to note a few things here.
The VEF-221-1 is a world band radio by virtue of having 3 SW bands in addition to 1 LW, 1 MW and 1 FM band.
It is basically a post-WWII transistor radio but it has some things going for it - it has an automatic frequency control feature, a noiseless tuning on FM feature (FM band is provided via some microchip) and it still works at 24 years of age.
A video in Russian of my 1996 Veras RP-225 Transistor World Band Radio showing unboxing, turning on, tuning and reception on all bands which are 1 LW, 2 MW, 5 SW and 1 OIRT ("Soviet FM").
