Horological Meandering

Hi All, Sorry, this post is a little tongue-in-cheek and a variation on the occasional requests we receive here to identify unknown watches. This abdominal radiograph is taken from an interesting review article in the Ulster Medical Journal that examines ...  

Andrew, As a specialist in criminal behavior, my hypotheses are cheap, counterfeit, and/or stolen. Stolen would be first in the differential diagnosis, as with a stolen watch any of three motives for the ingestion might be true: (1) To conceal the evidenc... 

i bet that guy was in jail on the computer posting this in other forums... post would be something like "i went to visit my grandmother the other day, she gave me this watch as a gift on her deathbed.... then she died and police came and i ate it.. could ... 

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Thanks Riley, I got a laugh out of that. It’s certainly better than the usual excuse we get: “I slipped in the bathroom and fell on it … honestly, Doc, that’s the truth” This watch was ingested and became impacted at the end of the small bowel leading to ...  

Wonder how long the foreign object had stayed in that part the ileum. Was it still ticking upon endoscopic removal? Could be a pocket watch.

Hi VP, The patient/prisoner complained of five weeks of right iliac fossa abdominal pain. The watch was reported to be still running after removal. That either means it was an automatic and he writhed around a lot, or a battery powered quartz. I will give... 

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Large bezel maybe means diamonds? I'm thinking a woman's watch from the lug ends, though hard to tell by pelvis size relation.

You know the guy was just storing the watch and taking care of it for the next generation Cheers, Anthony

A common prisoner tattoo is a watch or clock with no hands. Time may seem endless to the inmate, and there is plenty of clamor to remind him of meals and yard time. I haven't known one to swallow this style of watch yet, but nothing surprises me any more....  

Thanks Park , Very interesting. That tattoo looks rather professionally applied. I had seen this image before but had not taken note of the lack of hands on the watch. “Doing time” makes a lot of sense. When you said “I haven't known one to swallow this s... 

Andrew, Having examined more than one cannibal, I actually did mean the one tattooed on the wrist. Beautiful watches are something of a diversion from man's darker habits. Park

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