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Yes it was really nice to get to chat with him for a while — he’s a lovely man!

Congrats on the win!

Winner winner what time's dinner?

Why do we even need the LHC? We'll just have Katie Mack position the particles where they're needed, fusing them as necessary. 😉

Not that I'm your assignment editor, but I would love to read a blog post explaining absolutely as much detail of this whole thing that you're willing to provide. I am all of a sudden, very interested in amateur watch calibration, the existence of which I learned about from this post.

Thats so cool!

Whoa! Amazing! Congratulations!!!

New career!

Congratulations 👏

Around 1975 I talked to an old fiddler in Missouri who explained one time he got a dollar to fix a watch. He said that was a day’s wage. He said I don’t mean 8 hours I mean a day. Never went back to “work”. Y’all both have found your calling

Congratulations!

That's so cool! Congratulations. What was the movement? As you know, today is the 1st, following a month with only 30 days. It's been a tough morning.

Congratulations 🙌

🫡

Wow, congrats!

I've got a number of Swiss family members, so I've visited enough times to get the gist of the place, and a bunch of cranky dudes named Werner, Jens, Jorg, Stefan, and for some reason, Kevin are so steamed because you rocked their watch-related shit. They will angrily suck down Kirsch and complain

This is amazing!

That basically makes you a Timelord, right?

So now you can say:

😅

WOW 😲

Congratulations 🎉

Congratulations 🎊 doc

Congrats! You have an amazing brain in that head of yours.

Amazing! That’s such an awesome and obscure flex - best clock tuner in Switzerland! 😁

Amazing that she had the time for it!

As one does whilst in Geneva

There are probably some critical clocks on the International Space Station that need recalibration by now. Add it to your ever increasing qualifications the next time you apply to be onboarded for the astronaut program 😊 Tell them the Swiss signed-off on your logbook!

Awsome

Well, you got the next best thing: the reel

For your next project, please reverse all clocks to 1945 and disrupt the grotesque conception of a future cretinous parasite.

WTF! Wow! I don't think I could have more respect for anyone in any other field than making these tiny mechanical computers - maybe medical research. If I could re-do my career, I'd seriously try horology. All of which is to say, I appreciate how much goes into the achievement. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Awesome!

That's kinda random and really cool. ;)

Congratulations @astrokatie.com

Keeps perfect time, but they’re never sure exactly where it is.

Nice!

wow!

🥳

Congrats!

Next you will be building them .

congrats!!

That's so cool 😎

Thanks for getting back!

What was the prize? Did you... Win A Swiss Wist Watch?

This rocks congratulations! Im going to try and see if I can find the panel talk, too. I love talking about the nature of time with my students

I had a job at a watch factory once, but I got fired. One week, I tried to work some overtime, but it turns out that watch factories really don't like it when you put in extra hours.

Imprecise calibration? Not on my watch!

Great... There goes the next hour of my productivity as I try to learn about watch calibration...

That’s great! You do realize, however, that your friends and family will never permit you to be late for anything ever again.

I was told that the CEOs of all the big watch companies enter the competition each year and are very invested

You're just now finding out you won? Isn't that, ironically, late?

Congrats!

I bet you would be aces at lock picking! (It's my most recent new hobby. I'm terrible, but fortunately a lot of locks are even worse. 😆)

Yep

Amazing!

Congratulations! Wow

Just bragging rights

Congrats

Damn shorty, on Instagram straight flexing!

Seriously I can think of few more noteworthy achievements than this. Nobel, perhaps. But out-accuracying everyone in a competition to calibrate a Swiss watch? That certainly is something :)

That's fantastic!

Wow, being a huge Swiss watch fan, I’m impressed.

So cool! Congrats!!

Most of the time I don’t think about how odd I am and then I read something like this and think, “Oh that sounds fun” and it hits me.

How do you do it? Like, what do you measure it against? Surely it takes a really long time to see if it's still "out"?

Whoa So cool!! Are you an horologist now?? And what IS the nature of time? Is your talk recorded? It’s one of my fav subjects (also mysteries)

I like how of course you couldn’t know right away, because the watches have to run for a bit. Congratulations!

Indeed, Swiss time did not run out. And if you feared as if you'd lose the race ... you did not.

Congratulations! Although I think you should have gotten a watch too :)

Congratulations!

Great work!

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

But according to Heisenberg we have no idea of the energy it took you

How timely of you 😉

Congratulations so unique calibrating a watch 

Katie that is so cool!!! Congratulations!

Precisely.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✨Congratulations 🎊

Can I send you my Hamilton (Valjoux 7750)?

Wow! what can’t you do!

Wow nice job!!!

wtf that’s awesome!

Well done from a professional. What you did requires a very fine touch to move the regulator a small portion of a millimetre.

i'm surprised that took so much time o_O

Only got time for Analogue or Digital I guess!

Awesome

that's so badass

About time!

Well done. Sounds like you accounted for the difference in altitude at the testing room, and the acceleration it'd experience on the way there.

Seriously, every post recently has been either “Look at me doing this astoundingly cool thing” or “being chill despite having done several astoundingly cool things.”

So you didn't spend every undergrad lab adjusting this, aligning that, and calibrating the other?

I see a side career in your future

This is how you found out it's you who are watching the watchmen

Me: reads post out to my husband Husband: "Well, she's a physicist, isn't she? Of course she won!" (you can probably guess: he's a physicist) Congratulations! So cool.

Nerd (complimentary)

Congratulations!

There was a computer screen with a graph and numbers telling me the rate and its drift so I could see if the tweaks were going in the right direction

🎼🎵Tiiime is on 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 side... yes it is...🎶

Congratulations, very ... Niche? ;-) That's having a very steady pulse. How does the competition run?

MAZEL TOV, KATIE!!

Congratulations!! ⌚

what time is it ? It's Katie Mack on the dot time!

Is that what it takes? I haven't won in a while, starting to feel like I might not get it a fourth time

God dammit, Ariel.

Or Timex's.

Is there a crown involved?

All timer, even for you