And also if he didn't have any instructions on how to make one.
2007-04-05 15:24:11 · 11 answers · asked by Armund Steel 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
my stomach is bubbling.
2007-04-05 15:24:31 · update #1
He'd ask another watchmaker.
2007-04-05 15:35:08 · answer #1 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally I think it's all in the definition. For example, he wouldn't have been calling himself a watchmaker if he'd never made a watch. Similar to how I am not a doctor, as I don't have a doctorate. It's rather the prerequisite for the term.
However, as for how the person made the first...thats easy. As my husband informs me, if the watchmaker were male he wouldn't need no damn instructions. Real men don't read instructions.
The Wright brothers were bicycle makers when they decided to try their hand at an airplane. A person who wants to be a watchmaker can just start randomly trying to throw stuff together. But when he succeeds and it WORKS--then he can call himself a watchmaker. Until then, he is just a guy with a lot of lil pieces of metal. (Quite similar to an electrical engineer I know...I thought these were computer parts but hmm anyone want to buy a watch?)
2007-04-05 15:58:02 · answer #2 · answered by phantom_of_valkyrie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would have to create the raw materials from nothing.
Probably after millions of years of trial and error.
Horology—the science that involves the making of machines that indicate time—is among the oldest of the scientific crafts. The “heart” of these machines is the escapement. This regulates the rate at which the power driving the machine is released. When this power is allowed to escape only in small amounts and at regular intervals, periods of time can be measured. No one knows exactly when the first all-mechanical clock was invented, but a milestone was reached about the year 1500, when portable timepieces were first made.
ACCURACY: If this is something you value, you might consider a chronometer, a high-precision timepiece that meets well-established and official criteria of accuracy. Ultimately, quartz technology offers more precise timekeeping. A modern mechanical watch with a fast-beat movement that ticks 28,800 times each hour works at a frequency of four vibrations per second. Compare that with a standard quartz watch that operates at between 10,000 and 100,000 vibrations per second!
ASK YOURSELF WHO CAUSED THE QUARTZ TO VIBRATE?
2007-04-05 15:35:49 · answer #3 · answered by gary d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would be a pretty poor watchmaker if he didn't know how to make a watch. Eat some food to cure the bubbles.
2007-04-05 15:39:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would go to the bookstore and buy,"Watchmaking for Idiots".
2007-04-05 15:28:40 · answer #5 · answered by angel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's like asking how someone was able to make the first computer if they had never made one before, or how was man able to make an automobile if he had never made one before. These things require an imagination and some determination. Now if you are referring to God, He does not need to know HOW to make anything - He's God for Pete's sake! He can do anything, simply by speaking it so.
2007-04-05 15:27:56 · answer #6 · answered by Chimichanga to go please!! 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The same way Eddington did.
2007-04-05 15:39:57 · answer #7 · answered by raymond b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Through the same process that God used to create the universe.
2007-04-05 15:26:56 · answer #8 · answered by Chris 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oh sh1t! Maybe there is a god. And he messed this world up so badly because it was his first try, lol!
2007-04-05 15:39:17 · answer #9 · answered by NOT GODZY 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that is a good point...
*drink* Am, I supposed to drink? Oh well, too late.
2007-04-05 15:28:20 · answer #10 · answered by KS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋