The single-hand watch
Picture of a historical single-hand watch
Less is more.
The concept of the MeisterSinger single-hand watch consequently continues the age-old development of measuring time.The watches dispense with superfluous decoration and even omit one of the two hands. Such reduction to the minimum gives these watches an unparalleled clarity of appearance. Thanks to the accurate single hand and the precision of the numerals on the dial, there need be no fear of anyone missing their train. It is easy to read the time to five-minute precision anyway, it is always better to arrive at the station five minutes before the train leaves.
How to tell time with a MeisterSinger single-hand watch.
The twelve-hour dial is divided by 144 markers. Each marker represents 5 minutes. It is 10 past 10 on the watch shown. 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. You will note that, this works perfectly well in our everyday life. We learn how to be more relaxed in the handling of time.
History
MeisterSinger combines traditional values with sophisticated design, highlighting the very origins of the watchmaker’s craft. After all, 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.
For it was in this period that pocket watches were first sold in significant numbers. At first, they had only single hour, or 15-minutes increments at best which was more than enough in a pre-industrial age.