Reply With QuoteNot much good for shift workers (or people like me with weird sleeping patterns). Making it hexadecimal would be good if the ultimate goal was a really good system for messing with people.
...aka ´Feeding Time´.
Hexa-decimal - , decimal - , hex time. All organised in various dial/sub-dial designs in more or less puzzling format.
What about a one hand ´24 hour´ dial pointing to; B(reakfast) - C(offee) - L(unch) - T(hee) - D(iner) - N(ightcap) with five minute (hexa-decimal or decimal, whatever) markers in between?
Not much good for shift workers (or people like me with weird sleeping patterns). Making it hexadecimal would be good if the ultimate goal was a really good system for messing with people.
nice idea for those on meds as wellOriginally Posted by Huertecilla
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
GreenPill - RedCapsule - ...... - SleepingPill :albino:
So add an internal rotating bezel 8)
An alarm function with an S(omnifero) to take a sleeping pill :!:
The point being that the performance of a watch is about it being parallel with real time but that the dial units and - increments can (should) meet our needs.
As it is now we look at the time and convert is to an action/function.
We wis have many watches and swap them in line with the occasio so why do they all have the same units/increments on the dial :? :?:
I mean a monk needs time only to keep tack of vespers so a ´24 hour´ dial with the various vespers as marks would be far more suiteable than hours and him converting those to what rules his day.
Because we need to synchronise activities with other people and organisations.
Why not have those markers on the bezel? No need for a new scale. The point of the scale is standardisation: so everyone is working off exactly the same convention (in global contexts, this is why UTC is important). In the simplest form, you can say "meet me at 10:15". "Meet me at 10 clicks past dinnertime" is rather more relativistic, and not in a good way. ;)So add an internal rotating bezel 8)
An alarm function with an S(omnifero) to take a sleeping pill :!:
The point being that the performance of a watch is about it being parallel with real time but that the dial units and - increments can (should) meet our needs.
As it is now we look at the time and convert is to an action/function.
We wis have many watches and swap them in line with the occasio so why do they all have the same units/increments on the dial :? :?:
I mean a monk needs time only to keep tack of vespers so a ´24 hour´ dial with the various vespers as marks would be far more suiteable than hours and him converting those to what rules his day.
Btw, in it's simplest form, this timepiece already exists. It's anything with an alarm. With multiple alarms, all use cases mentioned so far are covered.
I sense that the OP doesn't need this basic funcrion as much as some of us...Because we need to synchronise activities with other people and organisations.
I sense that the OP doesn't need this basic funcrion as much as some of us...Because we need to synchronise activities with other people and organisations.
Like we all live uniform lives?
Like we all live that life all the time?
As I wrote; why not have a few dials matching different purposes istead of bowes full of different window frames for the same thing displayed?
Keywords ´as much as some of us´.
Quite few can do with something else.
If we would líke :idea:
Why would a watch in the original case tell us when to sleep or eat if we are working to our own needs without regard to external influences or schedules? We should sleep when tired and eat when hungry, how are you going to regulate that on a timepiece? How would you know when to switch between dials to resynchronise with external agencies?
Didn't really mean to offend Petrus - just gently poking fun at your odd (to some of us) perspective :)I sense that the OP doesn't need this basic funcrion as much as some of us...Because we need to synchronise activities with other people and organisations.
Like we all live uniform lives?
Like we all live that life all the time?
As I wrote; why not have a few dials matching different purposes istead of bowes full of different window frames for the same thing displayed?
Keywords ´as much as some of us´.
Quite few can do with something else.
If we would líke :idea:
You know what I have thought about? Modern life is wierd and very regimented - but you could do a weekday/weekend watch. A digital with two distinctly different modes to handle differetnt needs.
Problem solved.
If you're not so fond if rules, perhaps the Romain Jerome Day & Night is for you?
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/04/25/ ... tell-time/
No offence taken, but thanks.
Yes, big chuncks of life are regimented but we also lét it be more than we need.
A watch does not need different modes as manty of us change watches like a chamelon it´s colours anyway.
The point is that the representation of time can be matched to the circumstances, the need too.
The regime of hour/minutes is constantly converted to the things we really used it to tell us. Like the monk doesn´t want to know the hour! he wants to know how much time till vesper :idea:
We áll have those chuncks of life and change watch quite often enough to make it fit those chuncks.
Take tutoring or preesenting. You have the different parts and a time frame. Why not use a chronometer (time measuring tool) to indicate thát instead of info you need to convert.
Please do take this into the contect of us swapping watches :!:
This is a fúnctonal reason to :idea: , not just fashion/convention matching the occasion.
The more regimented a chunck of life is, the more it can be represented as such on a dial. Hours/minutes are far from always the thing we want to know.
Does anyone know of a specialist who can ´print´ special dial scales?
I have designed one for my horse riding. A bit like the artillery observer´s tailored to the trot and gallop in two tempi.
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