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Coaxial day/night and moonphase watch sub-dial |
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Proposal for sub-dial that shows both
Day/Night (AM/PM), and also the current phase of the moon. Differences from traditional
moonphase sub-dial: |
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(1) The moons are not on a disk but are two circles attached to opposite
sides of an axis. This "foreground only" moons piece rotates,
like a traditional moonphase disk, 360 degrees in 59 days. |
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(2) Beneath the moons as described in #1, is a coaxial disk which
rotates 360 degrees once each 24 hours, and is colored to represent bright daylight sky
on one side (white or light blue), dark night sky (black or midnight blue) on the other side, and graduated coloring from
dark to light and light to dark where the opposites meet (graduated gray or blue). |
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(3) The cutout in the watch dial might be slightly
larger than the size of the moons, to provide border space in which a little extra of the
24 hour sky disk underneath the moon is visible. |
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The moon shows the same as in a traditional
moonphase complication (See example, below). But the sky behind the moon (the "background") changes thru a 24 hour daily cycle: all dark in the middle of the
night, gradually becoming lighter toward morning, all light at midday, and gradually becoming darker
toward evening.... |
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See:
detail design sheet |
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http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/sq/DayNightMoon.html
Copyright © 2004 Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
bradmcc@cloud9.net
(2006-06-03 ISO 8601)
03 June 2006CE
v01.09 |
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Example moonphase sub-dial (also has coaxial day of month hand;
Patek Philippe ref. 5054) |
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