Horological Meandering

Marcus Hanke
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Help on this one:

It follows the same principle as my "Monozeiger" watch made by AHCI member Rainer Nienaber:




 Only Rainer combined it into a single dial.

In earlier times, clocks normally only had a single hand, indicating the hours. This was considered accurate enough. A chime stroke the hours. A bit later, increased accuracy was added by means of an additional bell, striking the quarter hours. For optical indiaction of this quarter hour, either a second dial was added, or (more often) a second hand, that was much smaller than the still dominant hour hand. Only during the later 19th century, the indication common today (short hand=hour, Long hand=minute) was adopted to reflect the chganged importance of the individual minute for the "modern times". Most clock towers, however, were changed only after World War II, when the originals were destroyed or damaged and replaced by modern electric clockworks.

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