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by zoratu 20 days ago
Kari Voutilainen created a new way to display analog time with his Vingt-8 ISO watch. It enables the minute hand to be opposite the hour hand when it's half-past, and aligned to the hour hand at the top of the hour. The location of the minutes rotate with the hours. From https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-voutilainen-vingt-8-is... the description says, "the minute hand makes 13 revolutions around the dial every 12 hours, meaning the top of each hour migrates over the course of each day."

Once you get the hang of it, it feels more intuitive than the traditional analog displays and has become my favorite way to display analog time.

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Damn that’s pretty awesome, very intuitive for me that the angular relation between hour/minute hand is always preserved
Exactly! I’m glad you liked it, too. It changed my whole way of thinking about analog timepieces.