The "Life Watch"

Referred to by some as an 'ageometer', this high-tech device has become central to the lives of most if not all mountain-dwellers, who have become extremely age-conscious. The watch was designed to be worn from birth and to be kept powered on at all times if possible to ensure constant accuracy. People generally do not take it off except to go to sleep, and they always remember to wear it when they leave their houses, as the watch records with great precision and dedication every change in altitude. The model depicted above registers a change in the base for one's real-time age according to every rise or descent of 10 feet in elevation. The "base", which changes with every 10 feet in altitude is the formula from which one's real-time age is calculated and adjusted. If a person wearing the watch at 20,000 feet above sea level has a base of 1 standard second (taken at sea level) = 0.98083457 real-time seconds, then that person when positioned at 20,010 feet above sea level will have a base of 1 STS = 0.98083456 RTS (one digit less). Thus the person's real-time age will change at a calculated pace that is accordingly slower at this slightly higher elevation.