Author: WhoWatchWear

Take a look at your wrist and, chances are, the way you’re reading the time is the same way humans have been doing this simple act over the past five centuries:  looking at circular dial with hour markers along the periphery, hands sweeping out from the center indicating hours, minutes, and likely seconds. Sure, we might find slight variations on the theme in terms of a sub-seconds register, 24-hour dial, jump hour (where hours are displayed digitally), or regulator (where the hour is displayed in its own register), but generally speaking, most modern watches rely on the same basic format…