Wrist watch

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<p>A lapse into extravagence</p><div></div>

<p>Citizen Perpetual Calendar Sapphire</p><div></div>

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<p>My grandfather was a physician, and needed a watch to take pulses, but wrist watches weren't so dependable, so he bought a small gauge pocket watch, and had a custom wrist strap made for it. The leather of the strap deteriorated, but this was a wrist watch!</p><div></div>

I shall supply a bit of information. When professional watch photographers shoot a watch they set the time on the watch to about ten minutes after ten. (Check some watch catalogs and brochures to see.) That gives the watch a nice smiley face. I have even seen digital watches that have 10:10 digital readout on them, sort of an inside joke I suppose. Without the watch being set to around 10:10 The photo may look nice but it just wouldn't look right to most people although they couldn't say why. The Illinoise watch above definitely has to be set to 10:10; it looks a bit lopsided at 3:20

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When professional watch photographers shoot a watch they set the time on the watch to about ten minutes after ten. (Check some watch catalogs and brochures to see.) That gives the watch a nice smiley face. I have even seen digital watches that have 10:10 digital readout on them, sort of an inside joke I suppose. Without the watch being set to around 10:1

 

I guess I could call myself a professional watch photographer in the sense that I photograph watches for money :) (namely Ebay sales and occasionally catalog work). I've also done photos for scholarly publication.

 

For those purposes, I'll actually often set it to 10:09 or 10:08. I've also gone a bit past on occasion. The reason is that I don't want the minute hand covering the numeral(which can be interesting) but on some watches I've run into the signature if I went a minute or two early.

 

This one was close

 

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee204/ben10ben/IMG_0021.jpg

 

I'm getting ready to start in on helping with a poster project(3rd one this NAWCC chapter has done). The above watch dial MIGHT make it in, although I suspect that someone else has a nicer condition one. These have actually sort of come out of the woodwork in the last few years-10 years ago, they weren't well documented, but several examples have surfaced. There may be 20 or so of them(it's hard to say with certainty) but I know of four or five in collections.

 

This one PROBABLY would have been okay at 10:10

 

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee204/ben10ben/IMG_3648.jpg

 

I've also been known to use 3:40(or 3:38) if it was a fancy dial or otherwise had something above the center line that I wanted to show. This positioning is USUALLY not used outside special dials or complicated watches because of the "frowning" appearance.

 

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee204/ben10ben/IMG_3546.jpg

 

Here's the 10:10 problem I was talking about

 

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee204/ben10ben/watches/IMG_0490.jpg

 

And one at 10:12 even though this would have done fine at 10:08

 

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee204/ben10ben/watches/IMG_0153-1.jpg

 

BTW, since we really want to get into macro photos :)

 

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