The Merivian Company introduces its new watch:
The First Circadian Chronograph: Merivian is the first watch that aligns time with your circadian (daily) rhythm.
Merivian is the only watch where the middle of your day is truly in the middle of the watch. Because, honestly, 12 o’clock isn’t anyone’s real midpoint. Our daily rhythms are personal, so the way time is represented should be too.
The latest set of 24-hour watches from the industrious folks at Svalbard have just been released, and are now available from their web site. You can use the code 24HOURTIME24 to obtain a discount.
These are all limited edition (500) productions:
1st row: Isbjornen AA23B, Evertime AA54, Traser AA55, Tidlos AA56
2nd row: Eclipse AA57, Urban AA58, Polar GA15, Follower GA19
3rd row: Altitude GA31, Arctic GH24†, Horizon GH46†, Traser GH55†
†models GH24, GH46, GH55 and automatic, made with Seiko NH34A movement
The AAA Watch Club have been making 24 hour watches (and featuring on this site!) for nearly 20 years. Now you can join in the excitement of a Kickstarter project with an opportunity to obtain their latest offering: the Forte Limited Edition ALPHA SX Series Safety-Inspired 24 Hour Watch:
now water resistant to 20 ATM and with anti-glare Sapphire Glass.
The Kickstarter campaign is about to launch! Visit this link to see the home page, where you can arrange to be notified when the Kickstarter Project Page goes live.
You can find their existing range of watches at aaawatchclub.com.
The latest set of 24-hour watches from the fine folks at Svalbard have been released, and are now available from their web site. Use the code 24HOURTIME24 for a discount.
1st row: Solfestuka AA11C, Solfestuka AA15D, Noonday AA17G, Nautico GA27
2nd row: Flight GA34, Flight GA52, Seatimer GH14, Polar GH15
In August, Svalbard released three new 24-hour watch models.
Models from left to right – Noonday AA17F, Flight AA52, Yin Yang AA53. Also shown, below, are two interesting 12-hour watches, the Flight AB15, and Mariner AB17.
Descriptions of the models are available at their official website Svalbard Watch, and all of the models are now available for purchase in the official store, at Svalbard.One.
As a visitor to this site, you can use the discount code “24HOURTIME24” to get a 7% discount.
The sunclock.net web page shows a 24 hour clock together with information about the sun for your location.
The colors show the golden hours, plus the three types of twilight you’ll encounter – Civil, Nautical, and Astronomical.
An unusual feature is that it can show the time counterclockwise (anticlockwise). About the only feature missing is – ironically – support for Dark Mode.
Pical is an iPhone app that uses the 24 hour dial to help you plan your calendar.
From the app’s description:
A visual calendar to help focus your day. Calendar events are displayed on a 24h clock dial, representing the entire day. Easily keep track of upcoming events with a time-remaining countdown display in the center of the dial.
Two calendar groups: The dial is split into two rings, so you can prioritize some calendars over others. For example, use the outer one for your own, and the inner one for your family members’ or colleagues’ schedules. Or just keep your work calendar and personal calendar separate.
Visualize time zones: Tap on the current time to pull up a visual display of customized time zones. Easily see what time of day it is for international friends and colleagues.
See when you’re free on any day of the month: A 24h dial is neatly split into four parts: morning, afternoon, evening, and night. In month view, you can see not only on which days you have appointments, but whether you’re free in the morning, or for lunch, or for dinner, on any particular day.
See where new events fit: When you add or edit an event, you’ll be shown when your other events are, so you can plan around them. Set appointment length instantly with our time slider.
A widget you won’t be able to live without: See your entire day on your home page, as soon as you unlock your phone, and how much time you have till your next event. Indispensable information, right at hand.
As you can see from the screen shots, the execution of this concept is excellent throughout the application.
One interesting thing about this app is that it’s specifically targeted to ADHD sufferers – the app’s full name on the App Store is “PiCal – ADHD Clock + Calendar”. There are a couple of posts on this blog that highlight the utility of the simpler 24 hour design:
I do wonder whether this specific targeting to ADHD, good though it is, may deter others from benefiting from the improved usability of the 24 hour dial. I hope not.
One point to note: the app appears to be a subscription-only app: free to download, and then $3.49 per month, or $25 per year.
Visit Pical for more information.
On TV recently, an episode of Secrets of the London Underground looked at Picadilly Circus station, and there was a brief and rare glimpse of the unique World Time Today Linear Clock. This was built in about 1923-1925, designed by the architect Charles Holden, who also designed the rest of Picadilly Circus station and other London tube stations.
The title at the bottom left is “The World, on Mercator’s projection”.
There are a few lights indicating some major cities.
Here are some pictures of the display and inner mechanism.
The time is displayed by a scrolling band with the Roman numbers from “0” to “XII” repeated once. It shows both GMT and Daylight Savings Time (Summer Time). The band scrolls left (west) at the same speed as the earth rotates.
It probably gives a reasonably indication of the current times in various parts of the world, although, if you look at this much more detailed map of time zones from the wikipedia:
the simple linearity obviously isn’t going to be very accurate.
The numbers are shown in reverse for a few hours of the night, around midnight.
I suspect that the band has to be at least twice as long as the width of the map, so that it can run around both in front of and behind the map. The band looks quite long in these pictures.
Here’s a moody photograph of Charles Holden:
Holden sometimes used the pseudonym “The Owl”, because of his habit of working on his designs at night, sometimes until 3 or 4 o’clock. He was said to be a good craftsman and “good with his hands”, so I expect he played a large part in the design and manufacture of this clock, possibly in collaboration with building firm John Mowlem Ltd, with whom he worked on the development of Picadilly Circus station.
(The “Secrets of the London Underground” series was made by UKTV, which is owned by the BBC. I don’t know how you can watch this if you’re not in the UK.)
The fine people at the AAA Watch Club have released new versions of the Forté ALPHA Series of 24 Hour watches, with the big 43mm case.
We’ve redesigned the watch face with bigger, brighter
numbers that are Superluminous. Specifically, every other
of the orange numbers is 20% bigger. Plus, all 24 hour
numbers are now Superluminous so that they glow brighter
and maintain their glow longer in dark lighting conditions.And since the orange numbers are now a brighter orange they
are even easier to read during the day when they do not
glow and at night when they do!
At night, you’ll see the dials like this:
You can choose to have 12, 00, or 24 at the top of the dial:
To find out more, visit the AAA Watch Club.
I enjoyed this post by Jack Forster about twilight and dusk on the Apple Watch Solar Face, one of the rare occasions when the Apple design team exploit the 24-hour analog dial.
Visit Hodinkee.com for the article.
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