[time-nuts] RE; New Wrist watch

Pierpaolo Bernardi olopierpa at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 10:06:24 UTC 2012


On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Robert Darlington
<rdarlington at gmail.com> wrote:
> The waveceptor's are okay but I can't wear mine much because I tend to
> cross timezones a lot.  The hands only run in one direction so when
> going to the west, it has to spin 11 hours forward.  This takes 20
> minutes.   I guess it's one way to kill time on an airplane.

Some Casio models have hands which can run in both directions, as an
example, my GW-2000 does this. Both for fast forward/backward
adjustments, and slow timekeeping movements.  In countdown timer mode,
the hands move counterclockwise.

Cheers
P.



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