perilunar 2 months ago

Does the "double bosom" occlusion mechanism have a proper name? I always thought it was a bit daft — excusable on watches perhaps — but on larger clocks where there's plenty of space why not just have a half black sphere that rotates once per lunar month? (Even better would be a small model of the moon with a half black shade rotating around it).

Anyway: I made a (web) clock with that shows the moon position and phase: https://sunclock.net

  • caseyohara 2 months ago

    Great work on that web clock, that's a fantastic UI.

  • dylan604 2 months ago

    Interesting to show 60 seconds and 24 hour vs 0s. does anyone say 24-hunderd instead of 0 like this would imply?

    • perilunar 2 months ago

      It's common for 24 hour clocks to use 24 instead of 0. It's also pretty common for people to refer to times after midnight as 24:nn or 25:nn to emphasise it's the same evening. Timetables often do this.

      • dylan604 2 months ago

        I’ve had the “discussion” about hour-25 vs rolling over to hour-0 before, but in a video timecode sense. Hour-25 does not exist in timecode, so hour-25 is just wrong in that sense. I’ve seen some very strange things that happen when it rolls over in the middle of a video clip.

ggm 2 months ago

Is this innovative for watch complications? It feels like it. It might be the first innovation for a while.

Consumes a lot of space under the dial, so occludes other complications..

(not a horologist or luxury watch collector)

gorgoiler 2 months ago

It takes a special kind of mind to tackle an idea so entrenched, rethink the design from first principles, do it well, and come up with something so different from what was there before.

Bravo.

WillAdams 2 months ago

Nice!

Ages ago, a "Moonphase" font which I did was used in the typesetting of _Calendrical Tabulations_, so this sort of thing has always been near to my heart (I also used to use a "Phases of the Moon" application as a desktop background).

aruggirello 2 months ago

> Improbable stars

That was funny! (BTW the middle 'Horned moon drawing' has them too)

sciencesama 2 months ago

Just use a digital screen for that part

  • cafeinux 2 months ago

    Just buy a smartwatch, duh.