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A smoothly sweeping seconds hand is often used by a budding watch fancier as an indicator of quality. If you are close enough to tell the time, you can see whether the hand ticks once per second, or glides around majestically. But who made this the horological tyre kick of choice and does it have any merit?
Aesthetically the one-second tick is not ideal because the hand generally fails to meet up exactly with the markers on the dial. Some people might not care too much about this, but for those of a perfectionist leaning it can be quite annoying to see a precision instrument failing to hit its mark every single second, forever.
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The last time I visited Hampi in Karnataka was back in 2021, just as the world began to shake off the COVID-19 travel bans.
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Volkswagen has a knack for keeping their loyal and enthusiastic customers grinning from ear to ear. The German manufacturer has almost become synonymous with build quality, safety and performance.
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