what is wrong with this watch?

[BruceH]

(04-28-2021 10:02 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(04-28-2021 09:27 PM)Guenter Schink Wrote:  Oh no! It's an analog-digital watch. The hour hand rests on the X until the minute hand completes the next hour. Guess what happens then. The hour hand jumps to the XI

Günter

Thanks Günter, I had not thought such a 'classic' watch design would behave that way.

As each full hour is completed, it must be quite a noticeable jump when the Hour-, Minute- and Second-hand all jump at the same moment.

Sorry but there's no way such a cheesy watch had a jump hand mechanism - even the very latest stepper-motor models eschew such an approach. No, it's just cheap.

But they're in good company - one of the watch review enthusiasts on the Internet noticed a TAG Heuer print advert for a multi-thousand dollar watch where the second hand didn't quite align with the seconds markers on the dial. Ooops.