Best viewed enlarged if you have time – thank you.
It’s never too late …. …. to learn something new. Look closely at this classic watch - what do you see?
This was new to me - the dial shows only ten hours.
According to information on this watch, it is a rare watch made in Paris around 1797 by Robert Robin, reputedly King Louis XVI’s favourite clockmaker (Louis XVI was the one who lost his head together with his wife Marie Antoniette in the French Revolution). It is distinctive for its decimal dial which was made to measure French Revolutionary time based on the decimal principle of a ten-hour day, with 100 minutes and 100 seconds, in operation in France from 1793 to 1806.
Interesting, isn’t it? It does seem to make sense to me – a very simple way to measure time. But it seems it didn’t work.
I saw this watch when my brother and I went to Mdina last Sunday to see an exhibition of old watches.
Many thanks for looking and for your lovely comments and the fav's on yesterday's picture.
I love anything old and anything mechanical, so this is quite a find!! I always wondered how we settled on a 24 hour day and not 10 or 12 or another time!! Amazing how we settled for 24. Ten would have been so much easier to learn I think! LOL Awesome capture!! FAV!
This is so interesting looking and I really like the creativity of it. The information is really interesting, too. I've never heard of a 10 hour watch before, and how cool you were able to see one in person.
They were desperate to change eveything to decimals, weren't they!
I hadn't heard of the ten hour day, only the ten month calendar. Seems that was a non-starter as well.
Fab. close up and interesting capture and info., Dione. Thank you.
January 18th, 2016
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A beautiful capture of this interesting find Fav.
I hadn't heard of the ten hour day, only the ten month calendar. Seems that was a non-starter as well.
Fab. close up and interesting capture and info., Dione. Thank you.