IMHO the magnetic fields go right through the watch case and either
disrupt what's going on or can even magnetize the parts. Either way, the
parts are like "stuck" together and the watch won't run well.
Also, my father could never wear a watch, a great gift watch always would
stop. The same watch given to my brother, lost ten minutes a day. So when
I got the watch I was happy when it gained a few seconds a month and
lasted for over ten years. Go figure.
- Robert -
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Mike Hopkins wrote:
> Very interesting -- my father also worked for what was then New England
> Power and was a substation operator in Tewksbury, MA -- he also went to
> other smaller sub-stations to switch lines in or out for maintence or to
> clear trouble problems and I have similar recollections about the
> electricity "in the air" -- you really could feel it! An interesting side
> note - he could never wear a watch of any kind -- they would either run in
> their own time zones or not work for long at all -- he attributed this to
> the surrounding electric fields, but I've never figured out how that would
> affect a mechanical watch!.
>
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