24 Hour Dials

I owned a few Glycine Airman. It takes some time to get used to a 24h dial, but it is fun and a step from the norm. 🙂👍🏻

The drawback is if you have bad eyesight. Im over 50 and i need to hold my wrist “close” to my face and really look at the dial and hands to tell the time. 👨🏻‍🦯😄

I have a Slow Mo single hand watch from Slow watches. It was the only watch that I wore for well over a year before I started getting into watches. I really liked the way that it made me look at time in a different way.

Something different, closest thing I have is my newest Hamilton but if I could find one with a good movement at a good price I'd rock it for sure

I rather like my Glycine Airman for both the heritage and general look. It's being serviced at the moment but will feature in a future wrist shot without a doubt.

Agree with @Patrik had an Airman, loved the look & history, but as a time telling device it was pretty useless for me .

Damn shame, nice watch.

I’ve always wanted a Brietling Cosmonaut version of the Navitimer. Don’t have one (yet) mainly due to cost/finding something else more desirable in the same price range.

I have a similar one I bought before getting into watches

I would love a Glycine but I refuse to have a 24 hour watch with ‘24’ at the top, for two reasons:

1. There is no ‘24’. Time starts at ‘00’, eg 0020 hrs, not 2420 hrs.

2. Evidently ‘12’ should be at the top, meaning that when the hour hand points up, the sun is up, and vice versa.

A day consists of 24 hours. Im pretty sure you will agree with me and the rest of the world in that simple fact. Once 24 hours are reached, the time “resets” and start counting from 00:00:01. Its not rocket science. 😄

What do the numbers: 01, 02, 03, etc signify?

How do the hour number and minute hand work together?

What info do you use to decide that the time is 0830?

O1:00 etc, signify its night time. The minute hand shows the minutes as on 12h dial, there is no diffrence there.

08:30 is in the morning and adding 12h to that gives you 20:30.

Though i do agree with putting the 12 on top to make it easier for reading the time. It kind of makes more sense as the sun is at its highest point at 12:00 (Zenith) and not 24:00.

Thank you. Exactly right. When the hour hand points at (or near) 08, it means we precede the minute-hand number with the value '08'. On a 24-hour watch, the hour hand can point to 17, 18, 19, etc. Each time, we precede the minute value with the hour number. So, if we have '24' on the dial, that suggest that we would have 2215, 2315, 2415, which we clearly don't. Whereas, if we have 22, 23, 00, on the dial, then that correctly tells us that the time will be 2217, 2317, and 0017 hrs.

I really like the 5224r. Of course it's way out of my budget.

Vostok and Svalbard have you covered at way less

I own a few and I love them. For me, the biggest pros for me are that I can get a true sense of the passage of where I am in my day and I can mentally map my daily schedule onto the dial. The former is also a big reason I love GMTs over dual times, on top of it just being better for tracking time zones in that are more than 12 hour away from me.

If you want a more hassle-free experience when it comes to maintenance, i recommend Svalbard, but I will say that I love Vostoks despite not looking forward to their eventual servicings

Here you can see both my watches showing the same time 20:51.

Not sure I see your point.