Hoptroff No 10 is world's first atomic pocket watch movement
Summary
"Atomic," youll be able to say very soon, if you have a huge amount of money and dont mind wearing radioactive matter about your well-tailored person. Hoptroff, the London-based makers of the intricate insides of personal timepieces, have teamed up with time techies Symmetricom to make what they call the No 10, "the worlds first atomic-powered pocket watch". Not to be confused with your common or garden watch that might achieve that kind of millenial accuracy by simply receiving a radio signal from a central atomic clock -- like this Hammacher Schlemmer effort -- the No 10 has all the gubbins it needs to do the job itself. Indeed, Symmetricon developed the chip-scale atomic clock system for the US military, which needed self-reliant super-accurate timepieces in case of signal jamming. The movement has a staggering 28 dials, measuring useful things to know such as your longitude, latitude and humidity, and whether the mini nuclear reactor is about to tear a hole in your abdomen.