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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2770832, member: 19463&quot;]Vespasian would have wanted to know what time it was so he might have been more impressed by a solar digital but so he would not be bothered by having the thing on his wrist, he might have a slave wear it and tell him the time when asked.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine the effect on world exploration if the Romans had waterproof, shockproof, accurate to a fraction of a second timepieces.&nbsp; If they had command of longitude, they might have discovered Florida 1500 years ahead of time and Latin America might still be speaking Latin.&nbsp;&nbsp; There was a time that the measure of a timepiece was time. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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