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16 April 2021, 11:07 PM | #1 |
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Interesting article on Analog time...
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And the gliding seconds hand is a beauty to me, weird that I don't get Seiko spring drive for smooth gliding. The beauty of an analog watch particularly with a seconds hand is that it reflects the constant push forward of time, not stopping or pausing. digital and quartz watches don't have the same transmission with the tick-pause-tick, but the biggest thing is to look down and see I have two hours left or that the hands are moving closer to noon, lunch is coming....or that I only have three fifteen minute sectors to do xyz... I have my Garmin set to an analog dial layout, and I understand you can put an analog dial on an Apple watch with a gliding seconds hand...this is the only way to go, I don't have anything that goes on my wrist in digital format. Obviously, my passion is for mechanical watches for various other reasons. |
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Very interesting. My favorite part of analogue time telling is the constant reminder that nothing is perfect. Good enough has been and will always be good enough.
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It doesn't matter how many of what kinds of clocks I have visible at any given time, I still lose track.
Fortunately for me, I tend to show up early for almost everything I need to do, so that even if I get behind I'm usually still early--like yesterday, when I realized that I was dressed and ready to leave twenty minutes minutes before I needed to leave and then realized that I'd let that twenty minutes slide by plus another ten minutes. I had three stops to make before my bowling lesson in fifty minutes and still arrived 10 minutes early for the lesson. I have a digital and an analog clock in the living room and devices all over the house that will actually tell me the time when I ask, not including my watch and my phone. In the car, there's the digital clock on the dash and my watch and my phone, which is visible while I'm driving, too. I don't use tricks like setting my watches and clocks five minutes fast, like a lot of people used to do, but that was before clocks that synced with time standards like NIST, etc. I just get moving early and move as fast as I can.
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