|
|
| Author |
Messages |
|
ATG 
Posts:3193
Bristol, London, Liverpool - UK
 |
| 21-08-2007 05:52:13 PM |
 Alert
|
This is where I got to when I spent an hour or so messing around with the Archimede.
Below are some more ref shots of military dials and there are loads more but if you see the dials, hands and applications separately you can see that they all are very similar. I could go on for ever with several hundred pictures so;
Please can I have some comments so I can start putting some work together on the dial and handset.
Dial 1
Dial 2
Dial 3
Dial 4
Dial 5
Dial 6
Dial 7
Dial 9
Dial 10
|
|
Regards
Alistair |
|
|
DaveS
Posts:470
Bristol UK
|
| 22-08-2007 05:29:54 PM |
Alert
|
Mind if I add a few ha'penny worth?
Okay, I like the simple uncluttered hour and minute/second markers on the Archimede, and I see no need for minute numerals (5, 10, 15 and so forth, as per dial 10). However, the Archimede minute markers are perhaps a little thick, and could be thinned down.
I definitely think there is no need for 1/5 second markers in between these, they are too thin, confusing and do nothing for legibility (imho). Half second markers are as small as they should go (and conversely these can be read easily).
IMHO, no need for 24hr markers as in dial 4
I like the simple Archimede type-face for the numerals, and I like the way they have left them out where sub-dials are, rather than having a truncated numeral. I am not very much into those. Many of the others have a very similar (and easily legible) type-face (showing a sort of If it ain't broke type of thing). I do not mind if the looped numerals (6 and 9) meet, or have a gap.
I like the triangular 12 marker, and I like that the other quadrants (3, 6, 9) are left as normal, rather than highlighted in another manner. Not sure about the two adjacent minutes being dors rather than normal minutes.
The hands are where I really struggle to sort out what I like best. My preference would be for some type of shape (pointy-ish at the end), rather than a totally plain baton, but not as shaped as the flieger hands on dial 7. My Fortis has some nice hands, shaped like those on 6 but not white hands with a lume centre, they are all lumed. I do think the hands should be black at the centre, to make them float over the dial (this applies to chrono hands too), and I like a simple needle orange chrono hand. Would that be a different colour lume, or merely coloured?
I also love the date being effectively "concealed" within the sub-dial at 6.
Surely I have blathered on enough - time for someone else to have their say
Cheers
Dave
|
|
|
|
|
|
| You are not authorized to post a reply. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|