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Alphabetical clock
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i'm partial to this clock from the Florence cathedral.
it's the Paolo Uccello clock at the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (a.k.a. the Duomo) in Florence

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@MBEverding @ocean In the flat I had as a student, my favourite place was the bed. In my favourite reading position, I had the head against a cushion on the wall. With a strategically placed small mirror on the opposite wall, I could see exactly the face of a clock โ€” not a grandfather clock, but one that had belonged to my grandfather. I learned how to read a mirrored clock pretty fast.
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@davew @christopherbrown With servos and a micro controller, you could do better than that. At the top of the hour, you can spin the hour hand to the correct hour, so it reads correctly per the labels all the time. (We've had self-setting analog clocks for decades now that have the electromechanical bits for this trick already inside them. My highschool had them in the 90s.)
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This is like a classic M&Co (theprintarkive.co.uk/products/โ€ฆ), who made fantastic clocks and watches, including a very important one for cat owners!

M&Co โ€˜Askewโ€™ Wall Clock (Tibor & Maira Kalman)

The M&Co Wall Clock Askew is an analog wall clock designed by Tibor and Maira Kalman that challenges conventional ideas of time. The numbers on the clock face are arranged in a random order, rather than in the traditional sequence.
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Came here to say this. I owned this M&Co watch when I was in high school

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M&Co โ€˜Askewโ€™ Wall Clock (Tibor & Maira Kalman)

The M&Co Wall Clock Askew is an analog wall clock designed by Tibor and Maira Kalman that challenges conventional ideas of time. The numbers on the clock face are arranged in a random order, rather than in the traditional sequence.
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Amorpheus

@feliz Yeah, up to a certain age, you can retrain. Specialization always takes a toll, though.

My grandma lived her entire life in the same appartment with a balcony door lever on the right side. At the age of 70, they installed a new door with the lever on the left side. Strong neural connections made her hand instinctively reach to the right side at first try for years after.

For strong sensory feedback specialization, neural adaptation is very limited.

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How a 1964 Cat Experiment Reveals the Power of Perception

What You See Is What You Become!
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Terence

Replied in a sub, but there is a mechanical watch that essentially works this way. The hour hand skips to the appropriate hour. Note that it makes the same distance jumpโ€”5 clock hours each hour. Still, an amazing bit of ingenuity in watchmaking.

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Crazy Hours - Franck Muller

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@IanAMartin i think it was mostly that James Garner saw the character as more of a working stiff and the Trans Am upgrade would cost the character a lot more than the character would spend, particularly if they went whole hog and got the 455 High Output engine and all. Kinda like if they gave Columbo a Lancia instead of that gray old Peugeot 403 that looked like it leaked.
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Yoh Deadfall

@catsalad, and there's a fun thing. The displacement of the numbers has some logic:

1 and 2, 5 and 10 - multiple by two.

11 is opposite to 6 and is followed by 5, 12 is opposite to 9 and is preceded by 3; 11=6+5 and 12-3=9; the operation depends on the second operand position (if it goes before or after on the display).

Other pairs differ by one.

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MOULE

I reckon this could go well with the alphabetical calendar:

April
August
December
February
January
July
June
March
May
November
October
September

Complete with alphabetical weeks:

Friday
Monday
Saturday
Sunday
Thursday
Tuesday
Wednesday

And alphabetical dates:

8, 18, 11, 15, 5, 4, 14, 9, 19, 1, 7, 17, 6, 16, 10, 13, 30, 31, 3, 12, 20, 28, 25, 24, 29, 21, 27, 26, 23, 22, 2

And for languages other than English, they're arranged alphabetically in their respective languages as well.

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have you ever seen the robotic arm clock that was done with a raspberry pi controlling it? It consists of a passive/nonfunctional analog clock with hands, and a robotic arm that reaches over and *pushes* the second-hand 'round and 'round. it's mesmerizing.
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