Porsche Design鈥檚 1919 Globetimer UTC makes it very easy for frequent travelers not to lose a moment of precious time. The local time can be conveniently set with the aid of the ergonomically shaped, optimally positioned pusher. Each press of this button causes the short, local-time hour hand to advance clockwise one position. 鈥?button advances the second time zone by an interval of one hour. When flying west, pressing the 鈥?鈥?button causes the UTC hands to move in the opposite direction. All the while, the UTC hands automatically move, remaining in synchrony. To assure this occurs at midnight and not at noon, the time needs to be set correctly just once. A circular window on the left-hand side of the dial facilitates this task: a white dot appears here during the daytime hours, but the aperture remains black at night. Porsche Design has also taken into account the reference time, for which a second and clearly distinguishable hour hand with a distinctive luminous tip is responsible. This hand turns once every twenty-four hours, showing at a glance whether it is reasonable to phone home, or if it is already too late (or too early) to wake one鈥檚 family. Nothing has been left to chance with the operation of the 1919 Globetimer UTC. To intuitively display the time from any viewing angle, the dial鈥檚 radius has been made as large as possible, while the titanium case was designed to be uncommonly slim. Well-balanced styling imbues this watch with a unique lightness, further enhanced by the handsomely shaped wristband. Color contrasts, distinctive hands, indices and numerals combine with the generous use of nonradioactive Super-LumiNova luminous material to minimize the chance of misreading, even in conditions characterized by poor visibility. In addition, a sevenfold antireflective coating and an extra hard-coated treatment protect the sapphire crystal.
Readers are leaders, books are surely one of the greatest sources of wisdom and knowledge. However, unfortunately, there are very few people who have it in their custom to read books on a regular basis. A developer reading books is a rather even rarer occurrence, with more focus being laid down on the internet search results to get their queries resolved and concepts explained. As technology travels faster than any time in history, new programming languages, platforms and tools emerge every few months, and therefore a programmer should read more than code itself. The best part about reading books is that tons of trees have already been chopped down and volume written on the topics you鈥檙e most likely interested in. You can simply pick up a masterpiece and leverage the extensive research done by the author to effectively get hold of the main topic and all related aspects, or sub-topics. It takes years to write a bestseller, so no wonder there鈥檚 a wealth of information within. A well-compiled and explained book!
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