Three-hand watches

A new dimension

Even the famous Greek astronomer Ptolemy made his calculations using the base of sixty, previously used by the ancient Babylonians. The terminology made its way later into Latin and has been handed down to us in the form of our modern hours and seconds. However, the minute hand of a clock did not appear until the 17th century. It was an innovation that totally changed the clock’s appearance. Time was no longer represented as a specific point but was given by the angle between two moving hands. Nowadays this is taken entirely for granted.