# Battery powered wrist watches stop due to a person's EMF?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battery-powered-wrist-watches-stop-due-to-a-persons-emf/425405>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 6, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battery-powered-wrist-watches-stop-due-to-a-persons-emf/425405 "2007-11-06T14:59:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![EdelweissPirate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8491ac/32.png) [@EdelweissPirate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdelweissPirate)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battery-powered-wrist-watches-stop-due-to-a-persons-emf/425405/44 "2019-09-10T22:46:14Z")

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> [@ZurBob](#):
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> Yep, ya got me there, man. I cannot attest to an exact number… approximately 10 is the best I can do. And now that you mention it, I probably don’t **really**  **know** my Wife of 44 years… she no doubt was sneaking around under the cover of darkness and abusing those poor watches. Mystery solved and enlightenment prevails!

As the old saying goes, extraordinarily claims require extraordinary evidence. Your claim is extraordinary and you have no evidence at all—just a fuzzy memory of an anecdote.

> [@ZurBob](#):
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> My cake remains uneaten.

That’s not right. That’s not even wrong.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battery-powered-wrist-watches-stop-due-to-a-persons-emf/425405/45 "2019-09-10T22:51:16Z")

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[Moderating]  
**EdelweissPirate** didn’t bump this thread; it was a now-deleted spammer. So spare the zombie jokes.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battery-powered-wrist-watches-stop-due-to-a-persons-emf/425405/46 "2019-09-11T00:16:22Z")

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Huh, so many spammers. You’d think this thread was on some kinda watch-list.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battery-powered-wrist-watches-stop-due-to-a-persons-emf/425405/47 "2019-09-11T03:58:05Z")

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**Moderator Action**

> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Huh, so many spammers. You’d think this thread was on some kinda watch-list.

Since this last bump has not resulted in any new discussion, and the thread has become a bit of a spam magnet, I think I’ll go ahead and close this.

If anyone wants to discuss this subject, feel free to start a new thread.

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