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 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.
At their recent WorldWide Developers Conference, Apple again showed that they quite like the 24 hour watch face. Again, though, they’re not 100% convinced that the world is ready to tell the time on a 24-hour dial. This is as close as they’re going to get, this year at least:
It’s their new “solar face”, showing the position of the sun in the sky, (like a good old-fashioned medieval astronomical clock). They’ve also kept a 12-hour dial just to help you switch over to the 24 hour dial.
They already use the less error-prone design on current watches for selecting alarm times (when it’s important not to confuse 12am with 12pm:
But if you want a more modern display suitable for your modern lifestyle, there’s a new iOS app that brings the 24 hour dial to your phone and your wrist. The app is called Circa, and it’s very well done.
Here’s the iPhone app:
The coloured rings are the “office hours” for the time zone: you can change the names and hours for each one. You can add more cities easily. Notice the short white bars around the edge: these are the appointments taken automatically from your Calendar (if you give permission, of course!). The developer lives in Kiev, I think!
You can touch and move the single hour hand around, to find exact conversions between local and other time zones. You can also create new calendar events.
The Apple Watch app installs automatically when you install the iPhone app, and it’s more or less equivalent in functionality.
It also lets you move the hour hand around (with your finger or using the digital crown) to see equivalent times in other zones. You can also add Circa as a complication on the other Apple watch faces.
The developer of Circa is Kostiantyn Zuiev.
(See also an earlier post looking at Alex Komarov’s development of an iPhone app.)
For 2019, the prolific Svalbard Watch company have just added even more models to their already extensive range of limited edition collectible 24-hour watches:
The 10 new models are:
Top Row: Barentsburg (AA31) Elementary (AA28) Meridian (AA25)
Second Row: Neoteric (AA30) Noonday (AA17E) Radiobolger (AA26)
Third Row: Regulator(AF14) Singly (AA29) Solfestuka (AA12)
New and previous models (and explanations of some of the names) are available at the official Svalbard tax-free store. You can use the code “24HOURTIME24” to get a 7% discount.
The Svalbard Watch company have added more models to their extensive range of 24-hour watches:
Top row: Antikken CA21 | Solefstuka CA12 | Sol Og Mane CA19
Middle row: Regulator AF12 | Noonday AA17D | Isbjornen AA23
Bottom row: Enkel CA20 | Discoverer CA22 | Arctic AA24
New and previous models are available at the official Svalbard tax-free store. You can use the code “24HOURTIME24” to get a 7% discount.
The 24 hour watch fans at the AAA watch club make the beautiful Forté collection of real 24 hour watches. Here is the Forté ALPHA model, 24HR-ALPHA-24S, with 24 at the top of the dial (yes, they also make them with “00” and “12” at the top!) in varying sizes. Also shown here is the luminous night vision view.
Use the following coupon code at the checkout to obtain a 10% discount off the price of these watches:
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The Svalbard Watch company have just added more models to their already extensive range of 24-hour watches:
The two regulator designs show the hour hand in the top small dial, with 12 at the very top; the large hand is the minute indicator. This design, once used on precision clocks, is based on the sensible idea that you probably already know what the hour is, and are looking at your watch more to get some idea of the precise minute.
A description of all new models is available on the official Svalbard website. You can use the code “24HOURTIME24” to get a 7% discount.
The Svalbard Watch company have added more models to their already extensive range of 24-hour watches:
On the top row: Antikken AA21B, Elementary AA20B, and Glacier AA19B.
On the bottom row: Militaer Pilot AA18B, Noonday AA17C, Sol Og Mane AA16C.
A description of all new models is available on the official Svalbard website: http://svalbard.watch
New and previous models are available at the official tax-free store.
Use the code “24HOURTIME24” to obtain a 7% discount. Please let everyone know what you think of these watches!
Today’s the Winter Solstice in the UK, and the sun was visible for about 6 hours. Up in Svalbard, Latitude 78°13′N, longitude 15°38′E, though, the sun hasn’t risen for weeks, and won’t be seen again by anybody living there until February 15, 2018.
The Svalbard Company’s watches are inspired by the beautiful, extreme and challenging landscapes of Svalbard and are valued more for their elaborate artistry, aesthetic appeal and fashionable design than for simple timekeeping. The Svalbard company has released new models for 2018:
These new models (and previous ones) are available on the official tax-free store. Use the discount code “24HOURTIME24” to obtain a 7% discount.
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