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Originally Posted by Barry
It's to tell you if it's AM or PM as a 12 hour dial doesn't differentiate (except just before midnight when the date starts to change).Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
The small 24 under the 6 could denote 24 hour but then I'm not sure what the 11 would refer to.
I agree with Roy. The main dial displays a time of 10.11 and 24 seconds, which tallies with that of the smaller dial whose hand is just past 10.
As to being able to distinguish between AM and PM, well that should be obvious, unless one is in either the Arctic or Antarctica! :lol:
It's a modern style variation on the sun and moon complication, which would look incongruous on a modern watch. It's just a matter of preference some people like extra features on a watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I have one watch with that featureQuote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
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And another that tells you if it’s day or night
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I'm now intrigued as to how the display on the second watch indicates day and night.
The 'Cole Porter' watch.
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Originally Posted by Macca
Hole displays white at day black at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
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The virtual display on my sat-nav changes from 'day' to 'night' accordingly with the time.
The sky round Chorley goes darker at night time, and brightens in the morningtime. It helps us tell whether it's am or pm. TV helps too, we get the 'signing dwarf' at night, and funeral plan adverts during the day.
Not true in Chorley, Alaska though. Might come in handy for them - if their telly has gone off due to a power cut or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Or they could just call someone and ask if the funeral ads are on, I suppose.
I quite like this Ciloa watch and they're only £35
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I agree, really nice looking, you would never know it was that cheap!
If the design is good enough for a £7k watch it's a no brainer at 35 quid.
Being quartz the £35 one will probably keep better time to.
I agree, but again what is the purpose of the small dial?
Dunno about the one on the cheap watch, no point having two seconds sweeps. But the one on the £7k watch probably tells the wearer how his shares in Rolls Royce Holdings are doing on the stock market :)
It’s a power reserve indicator on the Bell & Ross, tells you whether it needs winding, looks like a second hour hand on the cheapie.
This has Bluetooth, no idea why.
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Certainly a lot better looking than the previous offering! ;)
I like that watch, but would prefer a black strap.
The Seiko solar watch I got for Christmas has been pretty much unworn since then, and has spent its Spring sat on the dressing table. This morning I thought I'd have another go at making putting it on part of my daily routine.
Before that I needed to reset the time, and as I hadn't changed it when the clocks went forward I saw that apart from being an hour slow it is also 7 seconds fast - is that normal? It seems pretty good to me :)
This is what I used to set the time:
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That's only a little more than a second a month, I think that's pretty good for a mechanical watch.
In order to achieve chronometer status, a watch must keep time correct to within a minute a month. So your watch keeping time correct to a second a month is remarkable.
Easily attained with digital watches, but obviously more difficult with mechanical designs.
BTW, the most accurate time piece one can have is a smartphone!
It wasn't an expensive watch, so I'd expect there to be variations in accuracy. I must have got lucky. I'll check again later this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
This owes me £8.49 (paid more than that for a strap) and seems to be keeping perfect time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
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I like that Spinnaker. Another one I've never heard of.
When I recently checked my watch against the 'speaking clock' it showed that it had gained seven seconds since Christmas, but I'm thinking i may have originally set it against my smartphone or the telly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Anyway, a re-check today against same speaking clock, exactly three weeks later shows it has gained 3 seconds. So roughly a second per week. Not as accurate as I first thought, but still pretty good I think.
When it comes to engineering, whether it be watches, cars, electronics, Japan really are showing the rest of the world how it's done I think.
The most accurate timekeeper you have is on your smartphone, as it uses the GPS timekeeping to know where you are. The 'speaking clock' is also very good as it is ultimately derived from the atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory, but there is a very minute delay.
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(Got ready to leave the house this morning and noticed no watch! But it was so warm couldn’t be bothered to go back upstairs to get one).
Well that's no good, I'd assumed you'd have watches in every room, just in case :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
We’ve had a full on weekend with William turning 13 on Saturday, meals out and family time. Anyway, a surprise gift that he knew nothing about and loved. [emoji846]
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I bet he loved that. Cool watch.
Yes, a cool watch. I like the way the red stripe of the strap continues across the watch face. Very stylish.
That sounds like an initiative I should put in place :yesbruv:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Nice looking watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy S
Looks a bit 1950s, not a bad thing.