The signs of the zodiac are in anticlockwise order around the inner zodiac dial : the zodiac wheel rotates clockwise with the hour hand but very slightly faster.
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For example, noon is 180?'0 " NET and at that time the hour hand is pointing straight down forming a 180?angle when measured from the top, at midnight.
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From the position of the broken hour hand and the intact minute hand, it is clear that the watch, carried in Dixon's right vest pocket, stopped at 8 : 22.
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Point at the hour and click the mouse's left button, the hour hand moves into place; point at the minute and click the mouse's right button, the minute hand is set.
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Two weeks, three months, a season from today . . . the life Stevens now leads is measured by sweeps of the hour hand, not the flip of a calendar's page.
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-In the film : After years of promoting Seiko watches with those stodgy old minute and hour hands, the makers of Bond films introduced the first digital watch in movie history.
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To find the date, find the place where the hour hand or sun disk intersects the ecliptic dial : this indicates the current star sign, the sun's current location on the ecliptic.
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The snail-shaped cam is a part of the timekeeping train that revolves every twelve hours; often, the snail is attached to the center wheel that drives the hour hand of the clock.
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All working parents have forged their own survival techniques _ ones that help get them through the days, tiny pleasures that feel like stealing time back from the clock's ever-rolling hour hand.
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In fact, that title has belonged to the Minneapolis City Hall clock since 1909 . Each hour hand of the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower is long and weighs 490 pounds ( 220 kg ).
