The super premium watch maker Rolex maks a watch called a “Milgauss” model.
It is specially constructed so that the watch will operate in a high magnetic field (1000 gauss).
How useful a feature is this? Does the average guy ever get into high magnetic fields?
Wikipedia
So your watch can’t take the field from a small rare earth magnet.
So, a normal watch doesn’t work in the vicinity of an electromagnet?
I never knew that.
When I was in college, I routinely used an NMR spectrometer, which contained an approx. 12000 Gauss magnet. People in the chemistry division of a large university will definitely come across one, although how often depends on what their research is.
But you omitted the most important information for this thread - did your watch work?
ETA - some watch nerd will surely be along shortly to tell you that Rolex is by no means a “super premium watch maker” and that the words you’re looking for are “tourbillon” and “grand complication” and such.
Wouldn’t it be possible to make a watch that can work in any strength magnetic field by simply making it out of nonferrous materials? I’d bet a watchmaker that could boast that their watch would work on the surface of a neutron star* could thumb their nose mightily at Rolex…
- Until such time as gravity rendered the point moot, anyway.
I don’t know if this is connected to this discussion, but Mr. HP’s Rolex got screwed when he got too close to an MRI machine. It had to be sent for serious repairs.
Well everything is a little bit magnetic, so any strength magnetic field might be a bit too much of a stretch. There is a cool video out there of an extreme strength labratory magnet being used to levitate a frog.
Even plastics and polymers?
I had a professor who said they were. Basically Anything composed of charged particles has some level of diamagnetism according to him. If wrong I would love to be corrected
Which I guess means neutronium might be totally non-magnetic I guess.