2012年4月4日星期三

80-days around the Earth romantic Clock


In the just concluded Basel 2012 Watch Fair, the number of watch brands invariably a function of Universal Time or GMT function watch as the main watch. Have plagued the people of the time zone, are long gone. For any one person in the Imagination of this feature is also around the world, become romantic and practical together.
With the function or the GMT function watch
The birth of this function is the product of the progress of human society. Before long-distance transport is widely used in humans did not cross time zones for concern. "Outlaws of the Marsh" as the "News Attack" Dai Zong is the famous Scud legs tied to two A horse, a day will be able to run five hundred miles; tied four, they can dash 800 "This it is equivalent to the speed of an electric bicycle. Red Horse is known as "horse in the Red Rabbit" also to Kankan only "traveling thousands of miles, nocturnal eight hundred".

1937 Louis Cottier launched his Worldtimer.
Since the 19th century steam train is widely used across the district after the precise time becomes indispensable to them. Need to be very precise because the scheduling of train arrival time, this problem is especially urgent in the United States and Canada, two countries from coast to coast, have to cross several time zones, so as the "Father of World Time" of at Sanford Fleming, was born here.
Patek Philippe Cloisonne draw a map of the world pattern of the World Time watch.
For intensive phobia ", just imagine While dense set of 24 small dial" the world "watch, is enough to make them tremble. In fact, at the time, easy to read world time function does not appear, only 24 Dial reduced to six major time zone or two places. 1937, an outstanding independent watchmakers in Geneva, Louis Cottier launched his Worldtimer This display method is a very simple and clear world. Dial only local around the needle, but in the case of the periphery, respectively, a 24-hour ring around the outside and then an adjustable rotation and printed on the ring of the 24 representatives of different time zones and cities. As long as the local place names and local alignment, you can know the time zone in 23. Since then, world time display method has been established down, still in use today.

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