B. Citizen Nighthawk $295
expensive watch. ouch!! But dang cool. I like watches with simple faces. If I’m going to get a watch that has all the extra little things, then I want to go full hog. This watch does that. Lots and lots of cool little details. And the band doesn’t look too big.
There is a reason watches read 10:10 … it’s because with the hands in that position the watch looks like it is smiling.
I believe Tom is right. It’s more uplifting to see watch hands pointing upward. There’s too many negative connotations with with the hands pointing downward. up, up, and away! Also, it’s the most practical position. The hands shouldn’t be covering up any extra features in the wach like the date. For the same reason, you don’t want the hands covering up any major numbers like 12, 6, or 9. If the hands are going to cover up any numbers, then 10 and 1 are you best options. The numbers “1” and “0” are the least visually interesting digits. It’s just… Read more »
I learned it in “retail school” and again in advertising. I wish I still had the handbook for my first job at Lord & Taylor, but the verbage went something like this: “All watches should be checked in under normal procedures, inventoried and displayed in the case in which they arrived. If the hands are not set to 10:10 follow the instructions for setting the watch but do not remove the tag that protects the battery” In advertising they were more blatant: “A watch should always be set at 10:10 for a photo shoot. The watch will look ‘happier’, almost… Read more »
A quick Google search on the subject confirms it. Originally watches were set at 8:20 to frame the makers name, but it was thought that the watch looked too “sad”. According to a few articles I found setting watches at 10:10 is the industry standard.
The search I performed at Google was “Why are watches always set to 10:10” but without the quotes
Funny how all these watches have hands. What about a digital readout? DIGITAL BABY! WE ARE IN THE DIGITAL AGE!
digital read on watches? what year did you come from, spud? 1985?
hey, the securty code that I had to enter to submit this post is “time61” time! perfect! too bad it’s not “time1010”
I’m gonna change the subject of this post to “why watches are set to 10:10 time” so I get more hits from people doing that search.
YES 1985. I want a nice old school calculator watch. Enough of the silver metal watches already.
I think digital watches went out with the metal bracelets
spud came from the same year and day as you, moose.
but not the same time, laura. My clock is 3 minutes faster than spud’s.
I just saw this watch today. And it looks very busy in person. Not a hi-tech busy. But just a messy busy.
Ha Ha…
My comment about the watch times led Mr. Moose to change the topic title. I feel so influential!!! I’ll try not to let the power go to my head.
Guys, here’s the ACTUAL history of 10:10 – Initially, the watchmakers want to display their brand name and the date on the watch. Hence the only possible positions were 8:20 and 10:10 with the seconds hand pointing in the other corner. Now, 8:20 creates a problem on the watches with no numbering marks, since the hour hand places itself between 8 & 9 because the minutes hand is moving towards 6. Hence it creates a problem for a quick time check when you have a lot of watches on display at the same time. It takes a few more seconds… Read more »