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·I have come to apriciate my vintage constellations more lately. Possibly as I dip into an interest of planetariums. Clockwork orrerys and star charts.
I think what really hurt the constellation brand was GPS. Which in in every cellphone. So the need to calculate ones own longitude from the rate of the watch is a moot point.
What made the old connies was the simplicity of the design. The guts were what counted. Nowadays we take accurate watches for granted. Look how many check the watches on a timegrapher.
When I was little no one cared if a watch was off 3 to 5 minutes. Public clocks in a way were everywhere. The school of course had a master clock. Some rooms were fast some slow. The library clock never worked.
There was also a sort of social interaction where people asked each other what time it was. Even strangers. Of course the results were not always in the best of interests. Now we have social media to do the same thing.
Have not really looked into the globemaster. I would expect something with that name to be a GMT and compete in that market.
It would be nice if there was a trend back to the smaller watch cases in the 30 to 34mm range. But that is simply personal. @Aroxx post above makes the one on the left look like a cheap quartz knockoff. They do not get any better than the one on the right.
At the risk of wondering off topic on those old school clocks, what never worked. Some of them are mine now. The building was torn down. My mother worked in the library. Since there was too much asbestos they pulled it down in situ. I asked for the clocks and was allowed to remove them. That library clock still does not work. It is on my list to make a circuit to drive it. I even bought a WWVB reciever, which is still in the original packaging. One of the other slave clocks is on top of the refrigerator, forever stopped. If that is the one from the English classroom I knew I would be staring at it for a long time ...
I think what really hurt the constellation brand was GPS. Which in in every cellphone. So the need to calculate ones own longitude from the rate of the watch is a moot point.
What made the old connies was the simplicity of the design. The guts were what counted. Nowadays we take accurate watches for granted. Look how many check the watches on a timegrapher.
When I was little no one cared if a watch was off 3 to 5 minutes. Public clocks in a way were everywhere. The school of course had a master clock. Some rooms were fast some slow. The library clock never worked.
There was also a sort of social interaction where people asked each other what time it was. Even strangers. Of course the results were not always in the best of interests. Now we have social media to do the same thing.
Have not really looked into the globemaster. I would expect something with that name to be a GMT and compete in that market.
It would be nice if there was a trend back to the smaller watch cases in the 30 to 34mm range. But that is simply personal. @Aroxx post above makes the one on the left look like a cheap quartz knockoff. They do not get any better than the one on the right.
At the risk of wondering off topic on those old school clocks, what never worked. Some of them are mine now. The building was torn down. My mother worked in the library. Since there was too much asbestos they pulled it down in situ. I asked for the clocks and was allowed to remove them. That library clock still does not work. It is on my list to make a circuit to drive it. I even bought a WWVB reciever, which is still in the original packaging. One of the other slave clocks is on top of the refrigerator, forever stopped. If that is the one from the English classroom I knew I would be staring at it for a long time ...
