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Originally posted by cegerer
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I would argue that the single-hand design is quicker/easier to read/comprehend than any 2-hand watch and certainly quicker than any digital display - that's function over form. [/B]
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I look forward to reading that argument.
Look at this this way. Several hundred years of horological development has produced the mechanical watch movement, a tiny miracle of wheels, gears and springs, balances and escapements, that is capable of keeping time to within +3/-7 seconds in 24 hours under every condition that humans can withstand. (Yes, quartz movements and digital circuits do all of this better and at a fraction of the price-insert 911 anaolgy here).
So what do these people do with such a modern day, post industrial marvel of micro mechanical precision? They design a fashion watch that tells the time accurate to 2.5 minutes.
Brilliant.
What I do like about this watch is that the dial itself is well designed (although fundamentally flawed, as above) and especially the way the singular hand touches the minute chapters for clarity. I wish more manufactures did that.