AMAZING REVELATIONS

Did you know, Why all Clocks mention as 10.10 initially?

AK (Aaska Aejaz)
Writers Guild
3 min readFeb 17, 2018

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Did you ever notice that the watches and advertisement clocks usually show the time 10:10 in the product photographs? If you didn’t pay attention yet, so now you can pitchpole into a publication and get covering a watch ad-the rule is pretty much genuine.

Billions of money are consumed by the promotion market each year and the manufacturers have virtually shifted a science these heydays. The experts in charge of selling you products consider like to imagine themselves as Don Drapers, but they resemble scientists in laboratory coats serving to acquire the formula correct.

In this race of ads, Rolex spends $50 million per year and Omega is the next one who is not far. And many of watch brands are in this race. But when you take a moment to watch ads, whether it’s a clock or a watch, analog or digital, you will almost certainly see a timepiece set to 10:10.

This universal vision is no accident and can be followed back innumerable decades. There are some reasons why precisely this time is chosen, actually.
According to the New York Times, the main logic is entirely simple and reasonable: Aesthetics. There is a plethora of the evident benefits to having the hands fixed at the 10:10 positions. E.g, The hands are not overhanging, so they look…

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AK (Aaska Aejaz)
Writers Guild

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