Clocks and watches on display often are set at 10:10 because of the symmetrical look of the two hands on the face. Twenty after eight is also popular.
In addition this position usually allows the logo on the watch's face to be clearly visible.
30 min past 10 min past 10 hours
In the past, a common time measuring instrument was the sundial. Today, the usual measuring instruments for time are clocks and watches. For highly accurate measurement of time an atomic clock is used. Stop watches are also used to measure time in some sports.
10:15
10 past 12
25 past 10 in the evening 10:25 pm
In the past, a common time measuring instrument was the sundial. Today, the usual measuring instruments for time are clocks and watches. For highly accurate measurement of time an atomic clock is used. Stop watches are also used to measure time in some sports.
In telling the time 10 past 8 is 10 minutes after 8:00 o'clock.
five watches plus two dog watches totalling seven watches in a day in nautical time.
30 min past 10 min past 10 hours
It means that the local time is fifty minutes to eleven o'clock in the morning or in the evening.
In the past, a common time measuring instrument was the sundial. Today, the usual measuring instruments for time are clocks and watches. For highly accurate measurement of time an atomic clock is used. Stop watches are also used to measure time in some sports.
Watches are always photographed in ads for 10:10, too. It's so you can read the logo clearly without the hands cutting any part of it off.
Watches and clocks have been developed over a long time and made by many makers, and improved by many inventor, so it is not certain who was the "founder." The hands on a watch or clock, on display in a shop, etc, is usually set to 10 minutes past 10 as it makes the watch or clock look like it is smiling!
The past tense of watches is watched... "Bob watched the baseball game last night"
Who Watches the Watchers was created on 1989-10-16.
In the past the designers of the Movado watches have also designed watches for Coach. They have also worked for Tiffinay and Company, and Cartier, and even worked with Andy Warhol.
No, there is no new product called "Watches swatch." However there is a brand of watches named Swatch, who do come up with new watches from time to time.