A significant number?
Am fascinated by the products of Atelier de Chronometrie in Barcelona, not least their #4, which has a dial that rotates every 5 hours and 20 minutes. Why is this number significant, please? ...
Its a spanish working day....
🤣.... Joking... i have no serious answer to that... great watch though...
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Hard to find such a short-sighted and stupid comment in the forum. We have a new clown
The only reason seems to be "poetic", according to the website....
www.atelierdechronometrie.com
If there is no reason then surely with a bit of effort once every 24 hours would make more sense? [nt]
Becomes a day night indicator then which would be ideal.
A beautiful dial (and back side as well :-) There seems to be no info on their website, so here's my guess on the 5 hours and 20 minutes:
Since 5h and 20m is 1/(4.5)=2/9 of a day, choosing this cycle means that the moon will find itself on the opposite side of the dial at any given time on any two consecutive days (e.g., perhaps romantically, if you see the moon at 12 o'clock at 9pm tonight...
I love that explanation.
It’s not often one reads several paragraphs of perfectly good English and yet understands not one word. I’m going for a lie down now. 🤪 Regards Kev.
For a decade I was engaged in 3rd grade math
Actually in production of textbooks for Kindergarten to 6th grade — elementary arithmetic, geometry, algebra, etc. (quite ironic given that the last formal math class I took was in high school in 1967) But I suppose to the old sayings “If you can’t do it,...
The owner of the watch can decide the duration of each rotation, since ADC is all about bespoke.
I asked the same question when I met with the founders of ADC (lovely people by the way). The rotating dial is a romantic feature anyway, 5 hours 20 minutes is just about the right amount of time to keep the dial interesting when viewing it at various tim...
I guess so, but the moon position wouldn’t always be ‘correct’.
Personally I also find it more romantic that the dial rotates ‘spontaneously’, Ken
The dial is basically a 50-50 day/night dial (moon position is simply showing in the night zone), this makes it an ideal day night indicator. Works exactly the same as the day/night ring on Patek WT's. [nt]
Can't see anything romantic about something that means nothing.
I read all of this now, but then I’m sure I’m following what you’re looking for: was your question “why is the choice of 5h and 20m significant?” or “since I don’t understand the 5h and 20m thing, how can some people see something romantic about it?”
The second is certainly easier to answer, but please at least understand they are two very different questions...and you seem to move a bit too fast between the two😉
