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I feel like maybe I’m obligated to become one now?

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I did not get a watch; I got a very nice e-mail

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I was told that the CEOs of all the big watch companies enter the competition each year and are very invested

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They made me a reel and sent a nice e-mail with the calibration testing results.

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Debating adding "champion amateur horologist" to my bio

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Have you been alerting the people being impersonated or just leaving it alone? (I'm torn whenever I receive one of these)

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I guess so. I imagine the cost to them of reaching each author is ~ $0 and probably the less successful ones are more likely to bite.

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Oh I've gotten a few of those as well.

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"We center our audience’s experience around boundary-breaking non-fiction that functions as a direct catalyst for alternative self-reckonings" no you don't you're a chatbot preying on the hopes of authors and you should be permanently deleted for that phrasing alone

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I know I should always just block and delete but every time I get one of those LLM author scam e-mails I REALLY want to write back and yell at them for being awful. 😠

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22h

I had no idea what it even was before I did it!

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They just labeled the movement as GWD26-12 (where GWD26 is presumably for Geneva Watch Days 2026). As for the precision, I got it to +0.77 s/d.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23h

I’m not sure. I haven’t seen one

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They did send me the detailed calibration results as a PDF

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I have but it has been a very long time!

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They did! They sent me a full report with all the numbers.

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I think the prize is a feeling of accomplishment

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It’s so disturbing. At least they (very slightly) toned it down for the film???

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There was a computer screen with a graph and numbers telling me the rate and its drift so I could see if the tweaks were going in the right direction

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There are little tiny tiny bits that you rotate with a tiny poky thing and then you can tweak it a bit more with a tiny screwdriver

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I don’t think there is a prize — at least, no one has mentioned one. But it’s still cool to have won!

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was certainly not aware that I could do this!

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I think this qualifies you to be time's person of the year

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I had no idea what I was doing I just tweaked the bits until the numbers looked good and apparently that was the correct thing

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Earth @earthin24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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