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    haha, review of the above watch

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    Not very practical November 7, 2011
    By ZHund
    After receiving an incredible sum of money through the relative of a deceased Nigerian oil minister who contacted me online and through winning the European Lottery (which I don't remember even buying a ticket for), I decided to spend a pittance of the total sum on some necessities. After I bought a tie tack made with the Hope Diamond (which I accidentally left in my hotel room at the Days Inn in Cleveland), I bought this watch because I thought it looked like it could be useful for some of the extreme sports I conduct. I must say I am disappointed.

    I used the watch the first day while parachuting from the Space Shuttle (which I also bought) from 80,000 feet. The awkward layout of the watch made it very difficult to tell the time while free falling for an hour and a half. Although I blacked out immediately upon exit, when I came to at around 48,000 feet, I could not tell how long I had been out or use the watch to determine my present altitude. On top of that, I found that the layer of ice that had formed around my entire body made seeing the watch nearly impossible. One would imagine that the watch would have some type of heating source to prevent this, but I suppose Zenith left that out of the design.

    The "time travel" function is a bit cumbersome, and Zenith did a poor job documenting how the return process renders the user sterile, but I got to meet Jesus and I killed Hitler.

    The only redeeming value of the watch is that the Tourbillon Titanium seems to be derived from some materials harvested from a meteorite or a planetary moon outside of our solar system, which enables the wearer to become invisible for about 13 nanoseconds at a time. Since this can only be done about every 5 minutes, I haven't really found a useful purpose for this. I've decided to send the watch back.

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