FabR[Senior Patek Moderator]
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Yep, I always used the first way of indicating "3", with the thumb (I was born and went to school in Italy), which is therefore what I continue to do today even as a math professor in the US! :-) (I'm sure the students will understand that much! ;-))
Jul 02, 2021,15:33 PM
Like Blau was suggesting above, with a 24-hour system one simple way would have been to indicate them arbitrarily....not sure how fast the owner of the watch would familiarize with reading time in that fashion, but most numbers would have been displayed pretty counterintuitively anyway, plus you'd eliminate all cultural differences at once ;-)
In the same vein, as we were saying earlier, note that with another hand FPJ could have even displayed the date....not to mention the minutes, via a cool extra hand with 6 fingers (2^6=64 > 60)! ;-))
Cheers.