Re: Do mechanical digital wristwatches exist?


> >What if you just want it in digital form because you don't want to have
> >to translate it?
> >
> This is the point i've made. If you have to "translate" it, then you
> are not used to it.

What if you have used analog clocks and watches (as well as digital
ones) for years, have learned to tell time on both an analog and a
digital clock at a very young age, and still prefer digital?

What if you just don't have an analog mind?

I have a lot of trouble with faces. I used to have even more trouble
with faces than I do now. I would remember a lady not by her face, but
by her tattoos, or spiked collar, etc. It might be the same thing with
the time on a watch. Digits, like tattoos or spiked collars, do not
look alike. Faces, like positions of hands on an analog watch, do look
alike.

>
> >Or what if you cook noodles?
> >
> >I have seen at least one serious mechanical digital pocketwatch on the
> >Net. It was a railroad watch, if that tells you anything. I'd say it's
> >practical for one who needs exact minutes.
> >
> As always, if you need a specific function, then you must have that
> specific function. A digital watch is next to useless as a divers
> watch, unless it has a constant light function. The diver may not want
> to let go of whatever he is holding, in order to see if he is going to
> suffocate soon. Is he ? :)
> It's horses for courses. I prefer analogue gauges in the car. It is
> not readable as accurately as digital, yet, it is the only readable
> display there is at high speeds. Have you tried to keep track of a
> digital tachometer lately ?

I hate how there is no standard for speedometers. I mean, there is a
standard for time display on analog clocks (same hand position at same
time) but no such standard for speedometers (same needle position at
same speed).

>
> >Here is a counter-question: why are the date displays on a
> >"traditional" analog watch digital? Why is the day of the week digital?
> >Why not a pointer that smoothly makes one revolution per week?
> >
> Because a day happens in... um, a day ? None the less there are quite
> a few watches with a hand indicator for the date, but it goes around
> in a month.

What I mean is this: on your analog watch, the hour hand moves
smoothly, not in steps, one per hour. Why doesn't the day hand move
smoothly?

> Put it this way, neither the hour glass nor the sun dials were
> digital.

But when the time was recorded, it was certainly done so in a "digital"
way.

.

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