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Single hand watches may appear unconventional or even strange to many of us today but telling the time using just a single hand was in fact the normal way when pocket watches were introduced in the early 16th century.
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In 1797 abraham louis breguet created one of the most famous example of single hand pocket watch the souscription.
You can still see them on some old church towers.
Single hand watches a concept with tradition the tower clocks of the middle ages also needed nothing more than a single hand.
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Only when people s lives became busier and busier they felt a need to create this unnatural split of the day in two 12 hour halves and break each hour down in to 60 minutes.
This modern roman numeral clock quartz clock in a silver aluminum frame has a set of roman numerals from 1 to 24 rather than as is more common the arabic numbers.
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In fact timekeeping began with just a single hand sundials and the early church clocks kept time this way.
Visible from far away for the town s citizens and the rural population they showed how the day progressed when it was time to rest or when to finish work in the evenings.
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German watchmaker meistersinger is probably the most famous manufacturer of single hand watches since 2001 when designer and entrepreneur manfred brassler founded the company in münster.
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The clock below is a john taylor clock from about 1680 1700 and as you can see it just has the single hand and the inner chapter ring marks which at first glance look like minute markers for a second hand but are of course quarter hour markers for this single handed clock.
The next clock is nearly a 25 hour rather than 24 hour it s a lunar clock rather than a solar one.
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Those early clocks indeed had only one hand and displayed all 24 hours.
Mechanical timekeeping started with single handed clocks.
