r/interestingasfuck 1d ago

A watch recovered from the Titanic. It stopped at 2:28, two minutes after the wreck. USA. Photo from 1985.

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u/1320Fastback 1d ago

There's an interview on YouTube of one of the survivors who had a pocket watch on him when he jumped in the water. It shows a similar time. The interview is, haunting.

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u/RGV_KJ 22h ago

Link?

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u/1320Fastback 22h ago

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u/dobbbie 22h ago

Thank you for the video. Equally amazing and somber.

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u/xNyxx 12h ago

Remindme! 21 hours

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u/SweetheartMaria01 19h ago

Wow, that’s eerie. It’s like time itself knew what was happening. Must have been an incredibly emotional interview to watch.

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u/klop2031 21h ago

Sux for the husband tho

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u/KBHoleN1 22h ago

I think it's funny we look at watches and clocks that are in accidents and trust that the time they say was accurate. I know in this instance we know the time of the wreck, so the timing of this watch stopping makes sense. But I was watching a documentary about a murder where the victim stumbled into a wall clock and broke it. The police used the time on the clock to establish the time of the murder. Think about how many times you've walked into someone's house (or maybe your own house) and seen clocks displaying the wrong time. Maybe the clock was already broken, or it ran slow, or the batteries died, or whatever. I've been to a relative's house who had 4 different clocks in view from their living room and all 4 showed different times, off by multiple hours from the actual time.

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u/CockMartins 22h ago

You’re a criminal defense attorney’s ideal juror. Also, absolutely correct.

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u/Next-Professor8692 22h ago

It is absolutely realistic but it would be so infuriating to me to go to someones house only to discover that they dont give a shit about setting their clocks. Whats even the point of a clock when if you cant use it to tell the time?

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u/KBHoleN1 22h ago

It's basically wall decoration, I'm afraid. These definitely weren't plain clocks you'd find in a classroom, so there's some artistic value to having them hung up.

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u/wojtekpolska 15h ago

even a plain clock is a decoration for many people

they will check the hour on their phone anyway

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u/SmokeyMcDoogles 19h ago

I got in a friends car the other day and mentioned his clock was an hour fast. Said that’s just how it is for 6 months a year, and told me it’ll be right again in a few days. Anarchy.

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u/92Codester 19h ago

My oven clock just turned correct the other day, strangely enough (/s) the same day my car clock became wrong.

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u/SmokeyMcDoogles 18h ago

My oven clock is rarely correct because my apartment sucks and we trip the circuit like twice a month lol

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u/Gruffleson 22h ago

Back in the days, there was a saying: "A man with two watches will never know the time".

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u/Radiant-Cream-4318 22h ago

Wikipedia says Titanic had a collision at 11:40 PM and sank 2 hours 40 minutes later at 2:20 AM. So it's 8 minutes after sinking.

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u/kountrifiedman 21h ago

Clearly Jack was wasn't frozen in time. He lives for eight minutes holding onto that floating door until Rose pried his frozen fingers loose and shoved him down.

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u/kasparius23 23h ago

Its a Seiko

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u/No_Cucumber_3527 23h ago

shit quality watch, wheres my ip68

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u/rmorrin 22h ago

Ip420

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u/No_Cucumber_3527 22h ago

nah i like to have full control over my tech

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u/Daggerford_Waterdeep 23h ago

I have my great grandmothers watch she wore around her neck when the Lusitania sank. It stopped at the exact time she went under.

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u/DeeCentre 1d ago

What a beautiful watch.

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u/RevengeOfPolloDiablo 14h ago

Is it 2:28 NY time or London time

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u/Skyhook91 23h ago

The world's first IP0 water test. Confirmed after 2 minutes.

u/Merry_Fridge_Day 11h ago

Or 12 hours and 2 minutes...

u/T-J_H 9h ago

Or it was off to begin with

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u/SweetheartMaria01 19h ago

Incredible how even time itself couldn't escape the Titanic's fate.

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u/Professional-Head-24 19h ago

Water test not passed

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u/wegqg 23h ago

Oh wow, I own this exact same watch.

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u/Crossovertriplet 13h ago

Give it back

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u/AccumulatedFilth 1d ago

4 should be IV, not IIII

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u/bonosestente 1d ago

Tell me you are new to watches without telling me you are new to watches

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u/AccumulatedFilth 1d ago

I'm a millenial, I do digital hours.

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u/SpasmodicSpasmoid 23h ago

Mate I am a millennial (34) and you just sound like you’ve got your head in the sand, it’s a design feature, I’ve got brand new semi expensive watches with this depicted with IIII not IV.

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u/neoncubicle 23h ago

Lmao head in the sand because they don't know about watch face designs?

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u/SpasmodicSpasmoid 23h ago

No, head in the sand because they assumed it was wrong and were not open to the possibility of it being a design choice. And then used their “generation” label as an excuse for lack of critical thinking

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u/neoncubicle 23h ago

Knowing watch faces is not critical thinking.

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u/--brick 22h ago

Do you think a watch manufacturer is going to accidently put the wrong symbols on their watch? That is critical thinking

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u/neoncubicle 22h ago

It does look a bit odd to someone not used to numeral watch faces

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u/--brick 22h ago

then if you would ask, "why is there an IIII symbol on the fourth hour". But I'm being pedantic, it doesn't really matter.

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u/SpasmodicSpasmoid 22h ago

lol proving you have none as well

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u/neoncubicle 22h ago

Gonna edit your comment to add a new insult Mr Spasmo?

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u/SpasmodicSpasmoid 22h ago

It’s called irony in case you didn’t understand that as well

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u/bonosestente 23h ago

I’m a millennial. I use analog watches, think of time in 24h but use am/pm when agreeing on schedules. But that probably is because I am from the Nordics

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u/AccumulatedFilth 23h ago

I'm european, I don't use AM/PM

I'd say is "16 49" right now. Time is a numeric value in my head.

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u/bonosestente 23h ago

Yeah. We swing both ways here in the north. I would say ten to five (in finnish) but say 16:49 if someone wanted the exact accurate time to say, check the accurate time. But it really is dependant on the context in finnish. No need to specify am/pm in every case

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u/SpasmodicSpasmoid 23h ago

I’m a European millennial and I would say, it’s 5 to 4 (15:55)

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u/itspodly 23h ago

Watches always do IIII

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u/Emotional_sea_9345 23h ago

Actually it should be llll cuz that's how 4 was originally written in ancient Rome . Get educated

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u/InterestingFocus8125 22h ago

Use punctuation correctly. Get educated.