Rolex's Tesla Challenge

[askdanny]

No, not that Tesla.

In a Swiss patent filing, Rolex engineers shared an innovative idea on how to improve the anti-magnetic property of a movement.

In their tests, they took a superconducting electromagnet that created a magnetic field with intensities of the order of 10 tesla, or 100,000 gauss, and cranked up the power. They exposed the watch for 20 minutes in each setting, 0.25 tesla at a time.

And the results were — according to the patent — "absolutely remarkable."

My latest write-up:

https://coron.et/new-long-reads/rolexs-tesla-challenge

My one-minute summary:

https://coron.et

Thank you for reading!

—Danny