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This is not the terminator of the gallbladder, you're looking at there. This is actually a pocket watches made Urwerk, noted designer extremely high-end watches for people like to think that they are of Jules Verne.
A clock is called device Zeit ur-1001, said time down (up?) century and even has a register for thousands of years aka millennia. Why? Because they want to, that's why. It is made of aluminium, Titanium Nitride, hard metal used in the milling and drill bits.
I doubt any of us will go down for picking jewelry shop, one of them at our pal Hodinkee created a very useful guide for different duties Zeit device. I also can't imagine any of us live to see the clock tick over into the next century, not to mention the following millennia, so we have to believe the word that they watch Urwerk survive for so long.
Whether you are a James Bond villain, the timing of the launch of a space laser or Immortals Crusaders, guarding the Holy Grail for centuries, Urwerk has you covered.
The clock works Freescale IMX233 and connects to the cellular phone via Bluetooth. This allows you to check the message and wee bits of information and little else.