"Time-Telling Fun: Clock Basics for Kids"

Leave it to the Swiss to have pioneered what are called complications, or features beyond the display of time. Take the perpetual calendar, calibrated precisely until the end of the century. It can tell you the day of the week, the date, and the month – accounting for leap years, says Jaeger-LeCoultre's Matthieu Sauret. “It knows everything,” says Sauret. “There is no electronics at all in this timepiece. Everything is gears, gear trains, wheels, and springs.” #mechanicalwatch #watch #swisswatch

Rule Number 16: Never Waste Your Time

Approximately 23 countries and territories feature the Union Jack on their flags, primarily because they are former British colonies or British overseas territories that retained it as a symbol of their history or ties to the UK. Provinces in Canada still use the flag and also some states in the USA…Hawaii. #historytok #historymeme #british #britishempire #earth