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submitted 1 week ago by otter@lemmy.zip to c/watches@lemmy.ml

My wife got me this watch from the AFC store. The instructions inside claim the dials are "dual time hour hand (24 hr)" on top, "dual time hour hand (12 hr)" on the left, and "dual time minute hand" on the bottom, but the numbers on the dials obviously don't line up for that except on the bottom. I have not had much luck finding anything similar online. Anyone familiar with something like this and could explain it to me?

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[-] markz@suppo.fi 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Best guess I can make is that the top is 24h, but in decimal time for some weird reason. Do top and left make one rotation in 24h and 12h?

[-] otter@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Looks to be about the case. The buttons cause what appears to be a 1/24 and 1/12 in the top and left respectively. So I think that is what is going on, but the numbers just don't make any sense to me..

Edit: After playing with a bit I think that's exactly what's going on. For some reason the 24 hour face is two blocks of ten which twice decimal time. Very odd, but that does seem to be what's happening. And the 12 hour on the left just has the minute numbers for a hand that only does hours.

this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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