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Calendar types in watches

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179 points farslan | 1 comments | 29 Apr 24 17:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.372s | source
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dot5xdev ◴[30 Apr 24 23:50 UTC] No.40217885[source]▶
Question for folks who live in non-English speaking countries: do you guys wear watches with calendars in English?

Last time I was in a mall in Mexico City, I asked a guy behind the counter of some store if they had any watches that had either the months or days of week in Spanish... surprisingly, the answer was no. English only.

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1. jhbadger ◴[01 May 24 00:59 UTC] No.40218373[source]▶
Weird. My Seiko 5 automatic (about $150, probably one of the cheapest self-winding mechanical watches) has the days of the week in English, Spanish, and French. Weirdly, (but I suppose it makes sense if you think about how the gears work), if you look at the watch at an odd time (like say 3am) it is showing the day in one of the two non-selected languages.