Swiss Watch discovered in ancient tomb sealed for 400 years

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Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 100-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago.
They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral.
But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' that is thought to be just a century old. The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 AM


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WonBin

time travelers?

Ada machine time travel?

Ada tak penjelasan yang lebih logik?

ijad_adiputera

Pelik tapi benar!
Hehehe... rasa lawak pun ade...

seroja

interesting..

biggirlduncry

erk.... wow

InVendeTTa

This reminds me of the movie The Mummy and  The Exorcist....

Probably someone got there first and there were some kind of deadly curse

CHILLS

nafham

hm.... interesting. maybe someone from our future dpt cipta mesin balik masa n dia org gi zaman silam n mati time tu. so kita yg berada diperantaraan zaman ni yg menjumpainya. so blh jd lps ni ada ahli sains yg fikir mmg possible tuk blk zaman lepas so dia org pn built lah mesin masa tu. tp napa jam tu kecik sgt eh???? manusia ni makin mengecik ker???? nk pakai kt jari pn x lps agaknya.

geng_tx

HASIL AKU MENGGOOGLE SELEPAS BAHAM NASI LEMAK 2 BUNGKUS




No matter how you wrap your head around this watch mystery it's a real puzzler. I have looked at a million different websites to gain some sort of perspective on this mystery, but I am still puzzled. If you have any insight, please help me out.

Last month, archaeologist were caught by surprise when they found a 100 year old tiny swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago. They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral. This discover occurred while the archaeologists were filming a documentary with two journalists from Shangsi town

But inside they uncovered a distinctly tonneau-shaped miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' thought to be just a century old. The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06. Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.

"When we tried to remove the soil wrapped around the coffin, suddenly a piece of rock dropped off and hit the ground with metallic sound ," said Jiang Yanyu, former curator of the Guangxi Museum.

"We picked up the object, and found it was a ring. After removing the covering soil and examining it further, we were shocked to see it was a watch," he added. The Ming Dynasty - or the Empire of the Great Ming - was the was ruling dynasty in China from 1368 to 1644.

The People's Daily reported the watch had stopped at 10:06 am, and the word "swiss" was engraved on the back.

Now there are several things I found weird about this story:
a) The watch was found in a undisturbed 400 year old tomb.
b) The watch is tonnneau-shaped. Tonneau shaped watches was unveiled by Cartier in 1906

c) The watch is extremely slim and if the watch is 100 years old its thin case can be compared to Concord's Delirium 1 which was unveiled in the 1979 - the flattest analog watch ever made at under 2mm.
d) The tiny size of the watch. It seems a ring watch but the clasp seems so small. It could have been a cuff link which was quite popular at one time.
e) The watch has the words "Swiss" on it rather than "Swiss Made"; however, there were many fakes made in that time so the word "Swiss" meant little.
f) The news articles all claimed the watch stopped at 10:06 AM. Why AM? It does not seem to be a 24 hour watch. Why not PM.?

So now I have asked loads of questions, I have a few scenarios. Not all are mine some I picked up from web pages, black back round with stars twinkling about them ,writing about time traveling objects and tiny holes in time and space whereby objects slip through into other dimension. I am sure you can come up with your own too. Please share!

a) This 400 year old tomb had previous visitors, and one such visitor was wearing a tiny ring watch on her baby finger.
b) This watch is not real but rather an advertisement gimmick used to promote the new torneau shape. This watch could have been placed on a store front mannequin. In the early 1900's there was no T.V or Internet to announce new styles, companies had to be inventive like creating small gimmicky models of their products.
c) This watch is actually a time traveler that fell through a doorway in the early 1900's and arrived 400 years earlier to rest beside a tomb.
d) This whole thing is a hoax, a clever marketing ploy for something or other.






PERSOALAN DARI AKU...

Why a.m?

kantoi? kantoi? kantoi?

annoy_you

kelakar lah menda ni.

saya dah cari gambar gambar yg diambil berhampiran dengan coffin tu, tapi tak jumpa lah

saya suspect hoax saja ni.


apa pun, ni ada sedikit ole ole masa saya mencari tadi.

Possible Explanations

annoy_you

sbzd

alphawolf

Hoax...bloody hoax.....

FreeMen

adei.. time traveller?

edmundo

Swiss product...bermutu..

Acong

cis......... tipah tertipu.....!

sayangidaku

aahla. jam analog pon leh tau ke am or pm?

fuel_i

hahahaha...

razhar

lobai,knp yg aku baca ni tak kata yg bab2 waktu AM dan PM? lobai tambah2 kot?

Mystery as century-old Swiss watch discovered in ancient tomb sealed for 400 years

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Last updated at 4:34 PM on 18th December 2008

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Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 100-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago.

They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral.

But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' that is thought to be just a century old.

Mystery: Archeologists have uncovered a 100-year-old watch in a tomb believed to have been undisturbed for 400 years
The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 am.

Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.
The archaeologists were filming a documentary with two journalists when they made the puzzling discovery.

'When we tried to remove the soil wrapped around the coffin, suddenly a piece of rock dropped off and hit the ground with metallic sound,' said Jiang Yanyu, former curator of the Guangxi Museum.

'We picked up the object, and found it was a ring.

'After removing the covering soil and examining it further, we were shocked to see it was a watch,' he added.

The Ming Dynasty - or the Empire of the Great Ming - was the was ruling dynasty in China from 1368 to 1644.

aku tak jumpa pun ayat2 yg kata henti jam 10AM ni...

sayangidaku

Originally posted by razhar at 3-3-2009 18:44
Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 100-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago.

They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral.

But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' that is thought to be just a century old.

Mystery: Archeologists have uncovered a 100-year-old watch in a tomb believed to have been undisturbed for 400 years
The mysterious timepiece was encrusted in mud and rock and had stopped at 10:06 am.

Watches were not around at the time of the Ming Dynasty and Switzerland did not even exist as a country, an expert pointed out.
The archaeologists were filming a documentary with two journalists when they made the puzzling discovery.

kan ada tu.

razhar

tu a.m bukan AM...