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Zaf
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Post Number: 1703
Registered: 05-2003

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Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 09:34 am:   

I am posting this for someone:

Hi Zaf,


Like I thought -- it is just a standard Memovox with a different dial. Anyways, I have a question for you. I lurk your forums but am not registered -- if you do not know the answer, perhaps you can post it for me?


I was born in India & bought up in Bombay & was attracted to this watch because there are two Indian cities (Bombay and Calcutta) in it. Indian Standard Time (IST) is GMT + 5 and a half hours -- so almost every dual time zone watch gets it wrong unless there are two independent "watches" within the movement. Here is my question: IST was established in 1905 so it is a little strange that these cities appear on the dial. Bombay stuck to its own time zone of GMT + 5 hrs. until 1955 but it too moved to IST in 1955, around the time this watch as probably designed. So why would the designers put these cities knowing that they do not correspond to the traditional one-hour time zone increments?


Am I making sense?


Ram.
PS: India got independence from the British in 1949 -- perhaps this has something to do with it?
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GregB
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Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 01:22 pm:   

Good question. I had never really stopped to consider how/why each of the specific cities on a worldtime dial was chosen. It will give us a good problem to sleuth out.

Greg