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Posted By: Ricky Lee McBroom
Date: Tuesday, 1 January 2008, at 4:51 a.m.

It's a Prologue Alarm Chrono, sold by Clas Ohlson under the part number 31-3697. Not familiar with Clas Ohlson? Don't feel bad, neither am I. They're a Scandanavian chain, with brick and mortar stores in Sweden, Finland, and Norway. I received the watch as a Jül gift from a Swedish friend. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the packaging was Nordic, and proclaimed the features as

• Alarm
  
• Datum
  
• Stoppur med varvtider
  
• Bakgrundsbelysning
  
• Vattenskyddad
  

The first is self-explanatory. I think the second means that it can track a second time zone. But it might be a second alarm.. have to get back to you on that after I play with it some more. The third is stopwatch with lap timer. The fourth, I'm fairly certain, means that it's got a back light. The last.. I don't have a clue! Why? 'cause the instructions, while bilingual, are Swedish and Norwegian! Setting the time and date was a real treat. Fairly intuitive though - it only took a half-hour for me to puzzle it out.

What's that you say? What am I on about with the "Satanic Watch" jive? Well, check it out...

Click photos to SuperSize

Note the text at 6 o'clock. Six sixty six!

Plus there's that demonic avatar in the little window at 2 o'clock. Errr.. can't realy see it in that photo. Here's a better look;

See him? He blinks continuously, two seconds on and one off. Sure, he looks like some kind of alien smiley-face. But he looks kinda sinister to me, and when the 666 aspect is taken into consideration, I'm pretty sure he's some sort of temporal-themed demon.

Another neat feature is that each day of the week gets a distinctive icon. Alas, I failed to get a with the complete range displayed (they all flash in setting mode), but the lineup is;

• Sunday - an angel facing left
  
• Monday - a dove in flight, the classic "bird of peace" pose
  
• Tuesday - some sort of cute stylized animal.. a deer, I think
  
• Wednesday - a seal spinning a ball on it's nose
  
• Thursday - a hawk at stoop's end, talons extended
  
• Friday - a sea horse
  
• Saturday - an angel facing right
  

Not sure what to make of Sunday and Saturday's icons. Angels on a Satanic watch? Perhaps they're fallen angels.

The back is SS, affixed with 4 screws. Quite similar to my Casio.

No claim as to a specific depth rating but, hey, it's got a dolphin graphic so you should at least be able to swim with it, right?

All in all a very neat watch! I just need to sacrifice a chicken, sprinkle it with holy water, and do a wee exorcism, and I'm good t' go.

Thanks, Magnus!

I'll leave you with a . I did a bit o' photoshopping here. Put a circle mask around the li'l flashing demon at 2, and boosted the contrast;

Quite the , ain't he?

Happy new year, my brothers!

-Ricky

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