by Kyle Stults on August 16, 2010
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Here’s a new and neat single-hand watch from a little-known German watch brand MeisterSinger. Launched in 2002, MeisterSinger is a brand known for its single-hand watches that I liken to a more “relaxed” way of telling time. So what’s up with the single-hand design? Not much, really, but if you need help read on and I’ll tell you how to tell time. This particular model is a special edition watch featuing a 43mm black PVD case and a bronze hand with matching bronze-color dial decoration. Like other MeisterSinger watches, I’m pretty sure the movment is an ETA 2824-2 Swiss-made automatic but I need to confirm this. Price is about $1,900 (1450 EUR), but distribution is limited so if you want to get one here in the United States you’ll probably need to drop an email to order-information@meistersinger.net.
MeisterSinger No. 3 Special Edition
Bronze Time Hand / 43mm Black PVD Case
Telling Time
The twelve-hour dial is divided by 144 markers. Each marker represents 5 minutes. The 15-minute, 30-minute and the hour marker are increasingly bolder and in combination with the distinctive pointed hand make it easy to read the time. It is 15 past 10 on the watch shown:
MeisterSinger Chief Designer Manfred Brassler appropriately reminds us that “timekeeping began with a single hand – sundials, the first church steeple clocks, the old Breguet subscription watches. For the people in the late 17th century, a second hand must have seemed as strange as a single one is to us now.”
Thus while this minimalistic method of telling time might seem unconventional by today’s standarsd, I think it should suit the modern luxury watch wearer and his iPhone 4 just fine!
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