# Looking for an analog 24-hour wristwatch **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096 "2022-05-25T20:29:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/1 "2022-05-25T20:29:29Z")
Not an analog watch that has an inner listing of hours 13 through 24, but one that has an hour hand that goes to hour 24 in one sweep. Would prefer if it came in under 30 bucks. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/2 "2022-05-25T20:39:51Z")
This is the only 24 hour under 100 at 52. Only one hand, though. There’s a few around 100-150. > **[Amazon.com: JIANDUN Swiss Made Men's One Hand 24 Hour Watch Single Hand Black...](https://www.amazon.com/JIANDUN-Swiss-Single-Italian-Leather/dp/B09PYMXX8S)** > > Buy JIANDUN Swiss Made Men's One Hand 24 Hour Watch Single Hand Black Case with Italian Leather Strap (Black) and other Wrist Watches at Amazon.com. Our wide selection is eligible for free shipping and free returns. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/3 "2022-05-25T20:42:22Z")
I think I’m going to want another hand or two. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/4 "2022-05-25T20:49:13Z")
This is what I have. It has a 12-hour hour hand, and an additional 24-hour hour hand. (My 24-hour hand is set to GMT.) It’s a little more than 30 clams, though. [![](https://www.swissking.to/media/catalog/product/cache/9c7e59a894ab28fb9a108b3b9d92d3e1/r/o/rolex-gmt-master-ii-16760-jubilee-bracelet-black-red-bezel-1.jpg) ](https://www.swissking.to/media/catalog/product/cache/9c7e59a894ab28fb9a108b3b9d92d3e1/r/o/rolex-gmt-master-ii-16760-jubilee-bracelet-black-red-bezel-1.jpg) Are you on Facebook? I’ve been getting a lot of ads for sports watches, and I’m sure I saw at least one with a 24-hour hand. Since I do not prefer quartz movements, I didn’t check on the prices. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/5 "2022-05-25T23:54:19Z")
We had 24-hour analog clocks here and there in USAF when I was doing that mumble decades ago. To this day I think in, and use, 24 hour time for everything. I find the whole am/pm thing just idiotic. Yes, I have to convert from e.g. 1900 to 7pm when talking to most folks around me. I’m thinking only in terms of 1900. I never, and I do mean never, could learn to accurately read the damn 24-hour USAF clocks when I was in. My brain just could not make the transition to 0600 being at the right side and 1200 being at the bottom. Did. Not. Work. At. All. You may have better luck than I did. But if you have no experience with 24-hour clocks / watches, be prepared to fail utterly at learning to read them fluently. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/6 "2022-05-26T00:51:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > We had 24-hour analog clocks here and there in USAF when I was doing that mumble decades ago. I have a Stocker & Yale ‘Sandy’ watch that I bought in the '80s. > **[The REAL military watch - Stocker&Yale Sandy 490 Series I - Monochrome...](https://monochrome-watches.com/the-real-military-watch-stocker-yale-sandy-490-series-i/)** > > Unlike some marketing campaigns want us to believe, not many people in the military have the luxury of wearing large, bulky watches. No matter how great a 44mm watch may look with polo and chino’s while enjoying some after work cocktails, it becomes... I always liked the nuclear trefoil on the front, and ‘DISPOS OF RAD WASTE’ on the back. 😛 They’re a bit dear nowadays, though. This isn’t exactly what the OP is looking for, but it does have the 24-hour markings on the dial and it’s under thirty bucks. > **[Amazon.com: Infantry Military Watches for Men Analog Wrist Watch, Tactical...](https://www.amazon.com/Military-Watches-Tactical-Waterproof-Wristwatch/dp/B07Z7SVDHJ)** > > Buy Infantry Military Watches for Men Analog Wrist Watch, Tactical Waterproof Outdoor Sport Mens Quartz Wristwatch, Date Day Work Field Army Green w/Nylon Band by MDC and other Wrist Watches at Amazon.com. Our wide selection is eligible for free... This is similar. It’s more expensive, but it’s automatic and it’s Seiko. [https://smile.amazon.com/SEIKO-Seiko-Automatic-SNZG09J1-imports/dp/B003T9UBPI](https://smile.amazon.com/SEIKO-Seiko-Automatic-SNZG09J1-imports/dp/B003T9UBPI) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/7 "2022-05-26T00:57:30Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I never, and I do mean never, could learn to accurately read the damn 24-hour USAF clocks when I was in. My brain just could not make the transition to 0600 being at the right side and 1200 being at the bottom. Did. Not. Work. At. All. I always thought it should follow the sun, more or less. Meaning that 1200 should be at the top. Midnight at the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/8 "2022-05-26T01:44:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I have a Stocker & Yale ‘Sandy’ watch that I bought in the '80s. The USAF issue watches I was given between the early & late '80s look very much like, but aren’t quite, the Stocker & Yale in that article. They were total pieces of shit. Made by Timex I believe. Kept lousy time, needed frequent winding, broke / froze up often, had very dim glow-in-the-dark features, and were generally an anachronistic (heh!) embarrasment. But they did have the radiation warning logo which was nice except for the part about it being right near your soft pink non-rad-hardened body 24/7/365! By the end of a year of pilot training most of us had broken 3 of them and not bothered asking Supply for a fourth. The BX sold black plastic Casio digitals and to this day I wear a no-frills one about like this: [![](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/c5fc2241-d336-43e2-baf7-85a59a27b4b9_1.6d892ce316f9865e2e3abffd8741e9bb.jpeg?odnHeight=200&odnWidth=200) ](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/c5fc2241-d336-43e2-baf7-85a59a27b4b9_1.6d892ce316f9865e2e3abffd8741e9bb.jpeg?odnHeight=200&odnWidth=200) Which keeps excellent time and lasts about 5-10 years before I break the band & need a new one. If matching bands were easier to find and to replace I’d probably still be wearing the watch body I bought in 1981 or at worst 1995. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/9 "2022-05-26T02:09:28Z")
Definitely not what I am looking for, which is an analog wristwatch where the numbers run to 24 instead of 12. Not looking for one that runs 1 to 12 on the outer circle and 13 to 24 on an inner circle. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/10 "2022-05-26T02:13:07Z")
There are some Russian watches that fit, like: > **[Vostok Komandirskie 650541 Russian Military Watch Automatic Black Dial 24 Hours...](https://www.ebay.com/itm/154433193913?epid=24034188705&hash=item23f4ef87b9:g:kIEAAOSwBuhh-CDR&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4GrX0wy9pxvxopvjExm%2BX8an3vt6C1Hys7%2BHkh6cOBqGTsuCJyZMXcCDPxjf%2BufV%2Btq22E08FJ8GYvwIR4kZXPccmWgLgFRCdigXklFg%2BO9niSt6YjAm0EQ3MEo5YEWMtqYN4sKxTorIIWk8dsEg7X16iTSR58JBuiKgW34OurvPqk4SYRH5UlSTg9xQVg%2FMRaXnV%2BlLBkUQP3Zg1J2z34rgWia%2B6UUQQ98r6KzU5y7Fuyn6odycJfKfubmVAeUB8iABVgBnOTWnKfTNXwomRpXeqYv5FEN5sBBPSK7%2BSua0%7Ctkp%3ABFBMkuHz4Z9g)** > > In the USA, the most popular Vostok watch was the Desert Storm watch. But since February 1943, following the order of the People's Commissariat of Mortar Arms, the plant began to produce civilian products. Not $30, though. And… Russia. OTOH, it’s a self-winding mechanical watch, so pretty cheap on that basis. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/11 "2022-05-26T02:14:34Z")
That is the type of watch I am looking for. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/12 "2022-05-26T02:28:04Z")
There’s plenty of that type on Amazon but they start at about 114. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/13 "2022-05-26T02:29:19Z")
Then I may have to go that high. ---
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/14 "2022-05-27T10:55:09Z")
Funny, I always thought it should start from a quarter (3 o’clock) and go backwards - as a trigonometry circle goes on when depicting a sine wave function. I know a poistive x axis going left-to-right is just a convention, but it’s because most writing systems (alphabets anyway) go left-to-right. Sorry for the hijack. Do go on. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/15 "2022-05-27T10:59:38Z")
I know you said analog, but maybe this smart watch face with 24-hour markings will do ? [https://getwatchmaker.com/watchface/24-hour-analogdigital](https://getwatchmaker.com/watchface/24-hour-analogdigital) [https://getwatchmaker.com/watchface/gp-24-hr-analog-blue](https://getwatchmaker.com/watchface/gp-24-hr-analog-blue) It’s under 30 bucks… if you already have a smart watch. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/16 "2022-05-27T11:33:20Z")
Wow, I was ready to say that they don’t exist because I never in life have seen one! ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/17 "2022-05-27T11:41:15Z")
Your suggestion is that a 24-hour wristwatch should advance, well, anti-clockwise? I guess the philosophical question is, should it match the movement of the Sun looking up at the sky, the way East and West are “reversed” on a sky map, or normally, like a sundial? Although sundials run the other way in the Southern hemisphere… The noon mark being at the bottom _does_ match what happens on a _vertical_ sundial [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Sundial_%C5%BDi%C4%8Da.jpg) which people are (to some extent) used to reading. Therefore, to fluently tell time on your 24-hour watch, you have to imagine it as either a vertical or horizontal sundial and also intuitively decide where noon goes (straight down, straight up, or some other orientation), and also in which direction it runs, though clockwise seems to be pretty common down under even though one could argue the meaning of the term should be reversed there. ETA @running_coach 's model has noon at the top of the dial! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/18 "2022-05-27T12:05:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > matching bands were easier to find and to replace I’d probably still be wearing the watch body I bought in 1981 or at worst 1995. I’ve been wearing the same Casio (a little bulkier and fancier than that one) for more than 20 years. I’ve gone through two or three plastic and leather bands. My current band (which should last for the long haul) is a stretchy stainless steel one that I found partially buried in my yard while raking leaves. The analog Batman watch on it was very dead, but the band was still pristine after who knows how many years in wet, acidic ground. (I have little idea how it got there, it wasn’t mine. One of my klepto cats picked it up somewhere?) I also have one of the very early solar-powered digitals from the early 1980s that I picked as a child in a Green Stamp store. Whenever I happen on it in the drawer and expose it to light, it still works. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/19 "2022-05-29T07:34:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The BX sold black plastic Casio digitals and to this day I wear a no-frills one about like this: > [https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/c5fc2241-d336-43e2-baf7-85a59a27b4b9\_1.6d892ce316f9865e2e3abffd8741e9bb.jpeg?odnHeight=200&odnWidth=200](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/c5fc2241-d336-43e2-baf7-85a59a27b4b9_1.6d892ce316f9865e2e3abffd8741e9bb.jpeg?odnHeight=200&odnWidth=200) > > Which keeps excellent time and lasts about 5-10 years before I break the band & need a new one. If matching bands were easier to find and to replace I’d probably still be wearing the watch body I bought in 1981 or at worst 1995. [Picture of LSLGuy’s Casio watch, again:] [![](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/c5fc2241-d336-43e2-baf7-85a59a27b4b9_1.6d892ce316f9865e2e3abffd8741e9bb.jpeg) ](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/c5fc2241-d336-43e2-baf7-85a59a27b4b9_1.6d892ce316f9865e2e3abffd8741e9bb.jpeg) I had that same watch, or something like it as near as I can tell from this pic and what I remember. The very FIRST thing I did with it was take it to a jeweler and have that awful wristband replaced with a spandex-style wristband: [![](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0080/0053/6649/products/412kz1OBxiL_1200x.jpg) ](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0080/0053/6649/products/412kz1OBxiL_1200x.jpg) The big failing of that watch was that it was too difficult to open it up to replace the battery without having the entire insides fall out in 10e5 pieces, whereupon that was the end of that watch. I’ve never bought another Casio watch since. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096/20 "2023-04-16T18:28:26Z")
This popped up in my FB feed. Ten times what the OP wants to pay, and five times more than the one linked to by _running\_coach_. Nevertheless, here’s the site. > **[HOME](https://www.slow-watches.com)** > > SEE ALL WATCHES THE SLOW STYLES slow Round – 40 mm slow Round-S – 34 mm NEW: slow Twelve – 40 mm Slow Jo – 38 mm Slow Mo –... [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-analog-24-hour-wristwatch/965096.md?page=2)