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pplater
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"As our Moderator commands"...

Standing by for Journe instructions.

Otherwise, your question is a good one. As you know, the single hand of the Shimoda slowly and imperceptibly sweeping past the small five-minute markers on the dial rail all but 'freezes' time, and it is a fantastic watch to wear when the speed at which time passes should be a matter of no consequence - on holiday, on weekends, at leisurely dinners, at the theatre; you know the kind of thing. It's "Speake-Marin soup for the soul" to have such cavalier disregard for precise time whilst knowing the time sufficiently to meet the not-so-great-need.

You seem to be proposing that the opposite would be true with the J*D 'Grande Seconde', and it is understandable why you would think that. Well, while you are watching the second hand the pace of the passage of time is apparent: still, your attention is drawn almost entirely to that hand, and you tend not to focus so much on the precise position of the (rather small) minute hand on the (rather small) upper dial. When you are not looking at it, the GS is much the same as any other watch in that respect.

Where it might be the case, though, that one is more continually conscious of the precise passage of time, is with watches that have a loud and audible 'tick'; watches that chime on the quarter; watches with large digital (or digital style) displays where the passage of seconds and minutes is loud and proud (think MCT, Devon Tread); perhaps even watches with deadbeat seconds the action of which is coarse enough to be 'felt'.

Here's a gratuitous shot of the PSM for good measure:

Cheers,

pplater.