New E63 to be unveiled June 18
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2018 E63S AMG
I'd be fine with a Timex in the car if it looked nice and kept decent time.
Funny (to me) story about time pieces. Way back when I had an early Seiko quartz chronograph with LCD display and alarm. Kept pretty good time, about 2 seconds a month. I was working at a satcom station which had an atomic clock (Cesium) as a time and frequency standard. I was stationed there in Daegu Korea in 1978 to 1979. Part of my job was to do daily checks and preventative maintenance on it. On a previous shift I'd synched the time on my watch with the atomic clock so was really surprised to find that when I cam on shift three days later the watch and clock were 1 second apart. Surprised, as this was an uncharacteristically large time jump, I went to the maintenance supervisor and asked what was wrong with the atomic clock - it was a full second off. The maintenance supervisor was surprised that I'd noticed it and asked how I knew the atomic clock was off. He laughed when I told him and then confirmed that they had in fact inserted a leap second since my last shift. https://caps.gsfc.nasa.gov/simpson/t...apseconds.html
Considered buying a Rolex once but when I asked the shopkeeper about the timekeeping accuracy, he looked down his nose at me and said, essentially, these are fine jewelry and timekeeping isn't important. So I went with Breitling - at a different shop of course.
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I say the rear is a huge improvement. Front is heh, not much improved. Overall I like the way it will look wider and more hunkered down in person. I think the current ones look too tall and bubbly (compared to E63s of old)
