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As an AHCI candidate member, Voutilainen exhibited at Basel
World 2005 his Decimal Repeater, a world first. This watch, Masterpiece
No. 6, is a minute repeating wristwatch with up/down indicator.
With a stroke of inspiration and clever innovation Kari changed the way
the minute repeater sounds out the time.
Traditionally these are quarters-based system, with the
time being sounded out with the necessary hours struck with a single blow
(bong), the quarters (bing-bong) and the required minutes (bing). That’s
fair enough but not logical, not how we intuitively read the time.
Voutilainen’s decimal based system, however, is as
clear in its approach, as it is in the sound of its striking. Instead
of being based on quarters, it works in ten-minute intervals.
This achieves the same result, yeah, except when we are
counting the striking of the decimal repeater we are counting the exact
minutes. It is so simple, so wonderfully obvious, but it took the open
mind of Voutilainen to realize it. |
