Last but not least, something that Rafael E. Calderon
expressed best in his post as a reply to my first post of this watch: the hour
disk is really an innovation and not only a gimmick.
I was really amazed that when wearing the watch during the daily walk to the
post office, that I actually immediately started reading the time looking at the
hour disk below the little triangle at the 60 minute marker. It is really
amazing that I - normally wearing analog watches - switched my time reading
habits within two hours. Whenever I really want to read the time quickly - those
looks do not include the rather contemplating WIS looks at the watch face when
we normally forget to read the time too - I use the hour indices on the little
disk. And I noticed that our brain is obviously capable of quickly interpreting
fractions of the hours, in this picture I would quickly read 01:30 without even
noticing the hands.
While most Angular Momentum customers will probably choose this watch for its
different looks and feel, to me, that RDS or Revolving Disk System is really a
nice horological innovation and not just a gadget. Now I can understand, why RDS
was successfully patented and this was to me actually the biggest surprise after
wearing the watch for a couple of hours.
I hope you enjoyed the tour and were able to share a bit of
my enthusiasm. I would have loved to provide you with crispier pictures, but
this series was shot using two Sandoz watch boxes (well I see those more cubic
watch boxes have their legitimating too
) with natural
daylight and no reflector cards. Even I had my foldable reflector card with me
this time, it would have done any good given those thick convex crystals.
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