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by notMick 3018 days ago
Can I set my watch by that?
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> “It’s not Swiss watch precision,” said Gerhardt Meurer, an astronomer from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in a press release.
>> “It’s not Swiss watch precision,”

This is a weird case, like "20/20 vision", where the metaphor expresses the opposite of the reality. Swiss watches are so expensive because they're clunkier and less accurate than quartz crystal watches.

I think the idea is that the Swiss mechanical watches are more precise than other mechanical watches...
Score one for the deist "divine watchmaker" idea.