Deck / Marine watch dials

[Der Amf]

When the dials of ships' chronometers didn't have roman numerals they weren't afraid of having interesting numerals:

[Der Amf]

Presumably taking their cue from Naval issue watches such as this one from the 40s



the general trend in modern marine watches, as with pilot watches, is to have rather plain numerals:

[Der Amf]

There are some which try to be different to one degree or another

[is that my watch]

have always wanted a submarine clock myself

[FuzzyB]

It's nice to see that they were allowed to give a little character to the numerals given the criticality of their time-keeping mission.

In many ways, the dials of the ship's chronometers mirror the standard railroad watches. The standard for railroad watches required bold, Arabic numerals, but did not specify a font or style.

[whatmeworry]

It's nice to see that they were allowed to give a little character to the numerals given the criticality of their time-keeping mission.

In many ways, the dials of the ship's chronometers mirror the standard railroad watches. The standard for railroad watches required bold, Arabic numerals, but did not specify a font or style.

That's a good comparison, I wonder if there is a common heritage there? If the designers of RR watches looked at ships chronometers for inspiration on simple elegant legibility

[boatme99]

have always wanted a submarine clock myself

Not interested unless it has a giant arrow and the slogan, "THIS WAY UP" at 12:00!

[hayday]

Deck clock, barometer and ship's bell from my childhood.

-hayday

[Nokie]

This has to be my next alarm clock. Super cool!

[Chase]

have always wanted a submarine clock myself

This one makes me want to go crack a Heineken