Well, Bulova or Timex? Engraved? I would look with a very jaundiced eye at the well driller that made that claim, and try to speak privately with his wife/girlfirend.

Well, flailing around some, after that parry, I have heard about those dwarf mammoths that persisted on some offshore Siberian islands. I myself cannot see that they are any less unique and irreducibly complex than a watch.

Actually, on reflection, their appearance/persistence may be quite a saga, more impressive than someone merely designing/embellishing a sophisticated pendulum. The persistence of some small populations is borderline miraculous, isn't it?

As we "speak" here, intelligent interveners are wringing their hands about how to save the polar bears and cheetahs, f'rinstance.

Frank:"No, wrong.

-----------------------------anaconda : -------------tyrannosaurs : ---------------------chicken"