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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 1078789, member: 25&quot;]The transition from pocket watches to wrist watches in the first decades of&nbsp; the 20th. C. led to a variety of dial positions and no conclusion can be drawn from most of them, individual preference was catered for.</p><p>The only real period marker was the red 12 dial on early wristwatches.</p><p>People used to reading time from a pocket watch were so used to 12 being by the winder that it was taken for granted, the position of the hands, rather than the specific numbers they were pointing to, was enough.</p><p>Wristwatches moved the winder to the side for convenient winding, so many early wristwatches had the number 12 in red to indicate where it was, as a reminder to read the new dial position.</p><p>The red 12 fell out of use in the early 20s as most people had got the idea by then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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