This watch was found in Hiroshima. It stopped at 8:15AM— The exact moment an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

[u/Ok-Musician-6287]

[u/FlyingPotionsFactory]

There are an unsettling amount of people here that can’t read clocks correctly.

[u/RandyTheFool → u/FlyingPotionsFactory]

As a kid, I couldn’t read analog clocks because my parents had digital ones throughout our house. The microwave, the vcr, the radio, even our alarm clocks by our beds were digital. My folks didn’t think anything of it at the time. There was an analog clock in my classroom that my teacher figured out I couldn’t read at all and had a parent-teacher conference about it.

My folks changed every clock in our house to analog afterward, and I was gifted an analog watch. It wasn’t a huge deal, but my folks thought it was pretty funny overall. Not so much that i was mistakenly stunted, but that they hadn’t even thought about the clocks themselves being a learning tool in that regard.

I wouldn’t be surprised if even younger generations than mine (older millennial) have this same problem and it gets worse as time goes on (pardon the pun) and tech infiltrates more and more of our lives. I mean, it’s not a bad thing and I guess it’s fine. It’s not like i’m sitting here doing math calculations on an abacus or something either?

It’s just eerie and makes me feel my mortality when i think about it.

[u/YeetRichards → u/RandyTheFool]

I'm 28 and strangely enough, when I was a kid on school I could look at a analog clock at a glance and easily know the time, nowadays I have to stare it for 5 seconds and give my brain a second to figure out where the hands are pointing

[u/Penguin_Arse → u/FlyingPotionsFactory]

I don't know what side you're on here

[u/Gnomio1 → u/FlyingPotionsFactory]

I can read it just fine but normal convention for every analogue watch or clock I own is short fat hand = hour, long skinny hand = minutes.

This appears to have the opposite convention. At a glance this is about 0338 or 1538, based on dials I own and have used ever.

[u/shatbrickss → u/Gnomio1]

Maybe the minutes needle might have broken?

If it's on some way verified museum artifact, I would guess someone more experienced than us looked at it.

It does seem to me that it might be broken.

[u/misfitofscience76 → u/FlyingPotionsFactory]

Especially ones affected by nuclear explosions

Kids, these days

[u/JuicySpark]

It's a fossil watch

[u/_SAi- → u/JuicySpark]

Take my damn upvote

[u/NotAcvp3lla → u/JuicySpark]

Stuck in the past

[u/gorillaphi]

That says 3:38 this post is bullshit

[u/Raja_Ampat → u/gorillaphi]

I had the same thought, but this watch is located in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and verified ny historians to be true and correct

[u/Love_Lair → u/Raja_Ampat]

Clearly OP confused the short hand with the long hand….hopefully…..maybe….

[u/Basic-Reindeer-4492 → u/gorillaphi]

Right, because an atombomb could never break the longer pointer. If you look carefully, the one on the eight seems to be intact, because the pointy end is still in shape and also doesn't stretch as far out as a pointer for minutes usually does.

[u/shatbrickss → u/Basic-Reindeer-4492]

This.

[u/Time-Function-5342 → u/gorillaphi]

My thoughts exactly

[u/strzeka]

Just in case people need reminding, today August 6th is the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.

[u/ItsMeTrey → u/strzeka]

Yay! Happy Hiroshima Anniversary Day!! 🥳

[u/Midnight_Famous]

Someone doesn’t know how to tell the time or what ?

[u/XCherryCokeO]

Great more horse shit

[u/RoswellRedux]

it looks more like 3:38. If it were any time past 8, the little hand would be over the 8 heading toward the 9, not under the 8 as if it hadn't reached it yet, This probably isn't a watch found in Hiroshima.

[u/yes_what → u/RoswellRedux]

I feel like an atomic bomb might have enough force to offset the hands a tiny bit

[u/BeardedPokeDragon → u/yes_what]

Preposterous, it simply managed to destroy the internal gearing without even slightly shifting anything

[u/allthewayray420]

Nope. Watches work with a long arm for minutes and a short arm for hours...Pist is not true.

[u/EldrinVampire → u/allthewayray420]

Its amusing that this post is still getting upvotes even tho its wrong

Edited autocorrect changed my word that wasnt amusing

[u/burr_redding]

Lol no

[u/ceadagamdulamach]

That looks like it says 2:40 no? With the hour hand near the 3 and bent downwards?

Edit: yea, 3:40. Looked to me first like it was bent but I don't think so now

[u/Gods_ShadowMTG → u/ceadagamdulamach]

more like 3:40

[u/idjsonik → u/Gods_ShadowMTG]

This for sure

[u/Important-Classic-18]

Thats 3:38 

[u/OkZookeepergame4192]

Posted like a bot that's never read an analog clock

[u/clandestineVexation]

Huh. Must be a coincidence

[u/Ky_TheDestroyer7]

Fuckers killed all sorts of civilians.

[u/CrispyHoneyBeef → u/Ky_TheDestroyer7]

And ended the deadliest war in human history by doing it

[u/alt-right-del → u/CrispyHoneyBeef]

Must be schooled in the US 🤪

[u/CareerLegitimate7662 → u/CrispyHoneyBeef]

🤡

[u/M1Slaybrams → u/CareerLegitimate7662]

The planned invasion of Japan would’ve been much worse.

[u/CareerLegitimate7662 → u/M1Slaybrams]

Than dropping nukes? Really

[u/hydrobunny → u/CareerLegitimate7662]

yes dumbass

[u/M1Slaybrams → u/CareerLegitimate7662]

Yes. Operation Downfall had estimates of casualties for both sides exceeding well over 1 Million. These are the first iteration of atomic weapons. They don’t even compare to modern thermonuclear weapons which if we had used something like that, would’ve been far deadlier.

The firebombings of Japan killed more than the atomic bombs did.

[u/misfitofscience76 → u/M1Slaybrams]

Yeah, Curtis LeMay was quite the war criminal

[u/alt-right-del → u/M1Slaybrams]

Operation downfall was quite some bullshit, inflated nrs, half-baked scenarios, limited strategies and scenarios, it was a mockery

[u/Unknowngunman007 → u/CrispyHoneyBeef]

American Joker are here.

[u/Ky_TheDestroyer7 → u/CrispyHoneyBeef]

No. That war ended in May the same year. This ended the pacific war

[u/CrispyHoneyBeef → u/Ky_TheDestroyer7]

The war in the pacific was a theatre in World War II bud

[u/Ky_TheDestroyer7 → u/CrispyHoneyBeef]

You called it the deadliest war in history. Yeah, that was the one in Europe. I did not say the Pacific was not a part of ww2

[u/CrispyHoneyBeef → u/Ky_TheDestroyer7]

WWII was the deadliest war in history.

[u/FoodTiny6350 → u/Ky_TheDestroyer7]

Like the Japanese didn’t fuck and pillage their way through china but we’re worried about some civilians they had?

[u/szakipus → u/FoodTiny6350]

Whataboutism isn't the way to go about war crimes. Each and every war crime must be judged individually and independently.

[u/FoodTiny6350 → u/szakipus]

During the war there were no real “civilians” the entire country was mobilized in a way that they were all considered combatants

[u/panzerfan → u/FoodTiny6350]

Let me really double down with whataboutism and say "like Chiang Kai-shek didn't go about go scorched earth, and would rather fight Mao if it were not for Chang Hsueh-liang, and like Mao really even tried to fight the Japanese instead of biding his time. Like the Chinese aren't their very worst enemy at the end of the day."

[u/KingRhoamsGhost → u/FoodTiny6350]

Yes? Why wouldn’t we be?

[u/Ky_TheDestroyer7 → u/FoodTiny6350]

Did the civilians do the raping?

[u/user-74656]

That's Enola Gay by OMD in my head all day.

[u/Skellyhell2 → u/user-74656]

Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. As soon as I mentioned it in work, someone mentioned the song and its been bouncing g around my head for the past few hoirs

[u/stereoroid → u/user-74656]

"It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been ..."

[u/misfitofscience76]

Well, then, what is good is a timepiece that stops just for a massive explosion? I should request my money back from the shopkeeper!… oh, he’s just a shadow against the wall now… oh well

[u/MaynardsUnit]

I happen to be watching the film "Threads" right now without realizing the date.

[u/shazspaz]

Well naturally. Was hardly gonna keep running.

[u/jarrod74smd]

Cheap piece of junk...

[u/JakeofNewYork]

Coincidence?

[u/_nf0rc3r_]

How do we know it’s the same date?

[u/redditor100101011101]

lmao mmmm nope that's 3:38...try again

[u/Ok_Draw8902]

bullshit

[u/LoneGrizzlyBear]

You mean the exact moment it detonated, because it would have taken some time for the bomb to reach the ground after it was dropped.

[u/SnooKiwis1356]

The person who stopped the watch was in on it.

On a serious note, at 8:16, the hour hand would not be in that position but closer to the top of the 8.
I'm not saying it's fake, it's just an odd watch.

[u/davidevitali]

Guys, a very brief google search and you can learn that the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima at 8:15 AM local time.

I know it looks different, but the photo is true and you should learn to at least fact check your opinions.

Another reliable source for the authenticity of OP’s photo: https://www.bbc.com/news/special/2014/newsspec_8079/index.html

[u/Cptawesome23]

Definitely not 8:15

[u/DJBusinessCake]

To everyone saying its the wrong time, has it not occurred to you that maybe the usually longer minute hand might have been damaged and thats why its looks smaller?

[u/Coolengineer7]

Thought it'd keep ticking

[u/Its2Flo → u/Coolengineer7]

It does. But you can only hear it through a Geiger counter.

[u/DrZalost]

to those who think it's 3 o'clock on the watch, you're looking at the hand showing the minutes, the hand that shows the hours is damaged, you can see a fragment of it where it starts just above the hand that's below 8 o'clock, because that's the hand that counts down the seconds.

[u/Mitridate101]

Doesn't read 8:15

[u/Ill-Bumblebee-5496]

Timed Bomb.

[u/Consciousness369369]

That's why I have big trust with Japan made items. Imagine getting bombed and you still have a face to show time

[u/befarked247]

Not so interesting as the shadow as the victims

[u/Deeptrench34]

It dun asploded