Time travel ? Could that swiss watch belong to the person in that Ming Dinasty coffin or was someone there before you discoverd it.

HAHA, That watch is so small it could be a ring! Maybe it was a concept? I honestly think that it was a hoax though.

clearly its either a hoax or modern site corruption, possibly left by a looter. Always look for the mundane answers before you claim the extraordinary ones.

This is proof that the Chinese have been making knock-offs for centuries

I believe in time travel and this might be a proof of this happening.. Now the thing that has me very curious. If the watch is carbon dated, what happens if it shows to come from the future. Would our complete world change or would the governemnts in power use this as another Roswell, NM thing and cover it up. The ironic thing no one will believe anything other than what they believe after they have read the article. The governments will hide the evidense and the scientist will debate the facts for centuries until I time traveler lands in the Middle of the World Series of baseball or World Cup of soccer while it is watched by millions.

Hoax, obviously, come on. Even if its "dated" at 1000 bc or whatever a moderately talented carpenter working at the site could easily scrape this shape from an old rock. Or let me guess: humans from the future have shrunk to a twentieth of their size since 2010. hmmm...some people are obviousy sad, paranoid conspiricy theorists who need lives.

some people beleive the world repeats its self as in when it gets destroyed we start from the beginning agian and just create the same things then when we get to a certain peak of techlognoy we start agian maybe this is something left over ...

Erm 400 years? the 1600s. The Swiss were making watches 400 years ago. Furthermore we traded with the Chinese via both water and air routes 400 years ago. therefore there is no anachronism. It simply means it is likely the tomb of a westerner who dies on a trip to china. the end. nothing to see here people, move along.

June 15, 2010, 02:03, pug wrote > This is proof that the Chinese have been making knock-offs for centuries hahahahaha I think the story is an obvious hoax. 1) Is the pictured watch the "relic"? If so, why is it so small? 2) The watch appears to be carved out of rock or otherwise fossilized. A metal watch would have corroded and rusted away - or at least vaguely resemble metal 400 years later. 3) There seems to be no scientific info on the "watch" available concerning its materials, carbon dating, close up photos or other details. 4) China is involved........

It's a ring that's shaped like a watch. And it was probably left by tomb-thiefs. Not rocket science and hardly news-worthy.

100% a hoax story. Not unlike Kim Jung Il stories which crop up all the time. This watch story was simply created to gain internet traffic. There is nothing to corroborate it. Any metalic objects within the region would have long rusted away leaving no trace. I have been doing research on it for possible story myself. Nothing exists. Thanks for wasting my time rt

if this was true it would mean that men have invented time travel and traveled back to the past to contribute and influence man in building pyramids and other unexplained wonders of the past ming dynasty, mayans and egyptians . this would have not been a watch left behind but a crafted relic of a futuristic article that one of the time travelers were carrying at the time they were seen. And if this was a time traveler from our distant future the swish watch would have definently been an antique collectible to the time traveler. Agreeing with previous poster, if this was carbon dated and infact real, there would certainly be a government cover up and down-played as hoax. An even deeper twist would be, that there is a ongoing time machine cover up this day in age, and the actual watch is still being used by the time traveler as we speak. Ofcourse im sure most scientists/time travelers are using Rolex's or more expensive time pieces, just a guess. =)

Yes, but does it still tell time. That would prove the Swiss are, in fact, worthy of their watch-making cred'.

Occam's Razor, yo.

...full circle...

I don't think this is a hoax. It could have gotten washed in during a heavy rain or through a water source that runs underground. It could have gotten dragged in by a rat or other nesting animal.

in the future troublesome tiny time travelers take terrible tin timepieces to tell time.

If I told him once, I told him a thousand times... Don't step off the illuminated path, it could cause unexpected harm. Now I have to go back one day earlier and stop him from dropping the stupid charm his kid gave him before we left. Everyone, forget that we were here. Our great overlords will look kindly on your action.

pack rats or time traveler.....pick one