Rolexes, Radium and Atomic Clocks - Family Heirlooms in the Nuclear Age

In this video I discuss several watches and clocks that are meaningful to me for family reasons.
chapter index:
00:00 introduction - visiting my mom in Las Cruces, New Mexico
00:10 walking the halls
00:25 1952 Rolex Oyster Perpetual Stainless Steel and Gold Reference 6085
01:02 1962 Rolex Stainless Steel Datejust Reference 1603
01:14 discussion of the radium lume on the 1952 reference 6085
02:25 2006 Junghans Mega 1000 quad band radio signal receiver LCD watch
02:50 discussion of the WWVB atomic clock time transmitter in Fort Collins, Colorado
03:44 growing up in Boulder mowing lawns at the National Bureau of Standards (NIST)
04:53 tinkering with my family's 1901 Gustav Becker (German) wall clock from Norway
09:00 conclusion - discussion of family heirloom aspect of clocks and watches
09:37 Skipper singing "Daisy" on the bus

04:08 * correction: NIST is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (not Science and Technology)

Link to my previous video about the Junghans Mega 1000:
https://youtu.be/HP6oTINu7sc?si=zrls4CbZWONU2vy7

Link to the NIST WWVB pdf referenced in this video:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487279/pdf/jres.119.004.pdf

My video about the importance of checking any vintage watch you open for radium with an inexpensive Geiger counter BEFORE you open it:
https://youtu.be/8FlwNAjIgA8

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