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One
hand circles once every 24 hours.
12 o’clock noon on top, 12 o’clock midnight on bottom.
Light top half shows how much day time you have. Dark bottom half
how
much night time. Lunar phase displayed in smaller circle. Changes
throughout
the year for wherever you are. 500 cities preprogrammed. Shows
digital time.
Sunrise and regular alarms. Stopwatch. 2 time zones simultaneously.
Automatically adjust for DST. 10 ATM. Lights up at night.
The
symbols on the rotating bezel are an attempt to make YES more
sensitive to your individual time rhythms. They can be used in
some of the following ways, but feel free to find your own meaning
for them.
- The light
top half and dark bottom half indicates an equinox day and night,
at a glance you can compare today's length of night and day
with an imaginary constant 12 hour day and night. Where it changes
color can be counted as 6 in the morning and 6 at night.
- Sunrise
and sunset does not necessarily balance around 12 o'clock noon,
by turning the bezel until the equinox 12 hour day and night
balances sunrise/sunset times the sun stone pegs true solar
noon. The sun stone can also be counted as 12 o'clock.
- The hour
lines following the sun stone could mark a siesta, or time for
power lunching. Or 1, 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
- Some have
to be at work by the big triangle in the morning, others try
to be out on the golf course by then. Or count them as 7, 8
and 9 o'clock in the morning.
- The two
dots can be flighty markings for night owls. The smaller one
indicates when bars close, the bigger one when it really is
time to hit the sack. Some fisherman claimed the fish was biting
the best at this time and dreamtime REM is the most active around
this time.
- The outer
bezel can be used to indicate a third time zone. The creator
of the Yes watch has his home time in San Francisco, his away
time mostly HongKong, yet his parents live in Norway. By setting
the outer bezel to their time he can know not to call them in
the middle of the night. When on vacation by turning adjusting
to the times of day and night when arriving in a new destination.
The
YES watch is a very unique time piece, there is no other watch
on the planet that can give you this information. Due to its electronic
complexity and sturdy construction it turned out to be a big watch,
it measures 43mm in diameter and is 16mm thick, same diameter
as your typical Rolex but about 3mm thicker. Still, for what it
does, it is a lean and mean machine. A
Year in New York
8 Days and nights throughout 2000 for New York.
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