The Russian Code watch is designed after the notion that in space, time passes differently than on earth. To most folks who have ever worn a watch, it looks backwards. And it is. The hands, including the second hand, actually turn backwards in normal motion. The Earth actually rotates counter clockwise as well, so this interpretation of time is supposed to mimic the “natural” directionality of time in space. I had a very hard time telling the time, but maybe I’ve just spent too many years being programmed to read watches a certain way on earth, as I assume we all have. It seems to be an indulgence for the watchmaker and a burden for the wearer. But there’s a certain pragmatism present in most Russian engineering, a utilitarian approach to solving problems that makes its way into the design of timekeeping-adjacent products and tools. Soviet author Genrikh Altshuller developed teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadatch, or TRIZ, in the ’40s. It’s a problem-solving philosophy popularized during the rise of the Soviet Union. One of the pillars of this theory is that a process or product’s operation must be absolutely consistent with the environment that it’s used in, and in this sense, counter-clockwise hands make sense in space.
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