Tell us more about the Aristo.
Why is the inner circle numbered that way?
Whats hour angle dial?
Crap when i see Aristo i think of Toyota with the TT Supra engine hehe
The Aristo has a mock hour angle dial. It is not a real hour angle watch.
This is a real one.
The watch tells time by degrees. The inner radial is divided to 360° chapter. As such the hands rotate once ever 24 hours. The outer circle is divided into 60° chapter. The hands rotate once every 4 hours. In a real hour angle watch, there would be two more hands (some like the one by VC has 3), centrally mounted that rotates every 4 minutes, showing the angular minutes.
In the example above (OT the watch is valued at USD 1.7 million if I am not mistaken), the time shown in the image below reads 332° 8.5?, translating into 22 hours, 8 minutes and 33 seconds, the normal 'smile' face of watches being photographed.
Basically, the formula for conversion is 332 + (8.5 x 1/60). We are making it easy by taking it as 8.5' and not get it more complex to 8' 30". So that works out to 332.141666666666666666666...... Now to convert this to time as we know it. 332.14166666... x 4 (1 degree is 4 minutes) and we get 1,328.56666666... divide that by 60 (60 minutes in an hour) and you get 22.14277777777.... hours. So we know it is 22 hours. Convert the remaining 0.14277777777... to minutes, times 60. We get 8.566666666666.... so 8 minutes. To get the seconds, again times the 0.5666666... with 60 and you have 33 seconds. Must an easier way to tell time..... Basically to figure out the 'hour' hands, is made easier as the 60 would be 4, 120 is 8, 180 is 12, 240 is 16 and 300 is 20 and 360 would be midnight. So if the hour hand falls in-between these number, use the best guesstimation or agak-agakration.
So I guess I am 'lucky' to have the Aristo with the mock dial.
