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Nomos Tangente

The Tangente by Nomos Glashütte SA is a fully mechanical watch. It was very well designed by Susanne Günther.

I am the proud owner of the Tangente No. 10697. Here, you can see it in action.

SVG Animation

I have made a very nice animated SVG graphic that shows the current time using an original photo of the watch. You need the Adobe SVG viewer plugin or some other support for rendering SVG. The Adobe SVG viewer works very well with Internet Explorer. If you put the version 3 of the plugin into the Mozilla Firefox plugin directory, it will crash your Browser. The pre-release of version 6 works very well with Mozilla Firefox.

Java applet

Same thing as a Java applet. This applet is based on the Graphics2D features of Java 2. These include anti-aliased rendering of shapes.

The Java applet looks nearly identical to the SVG version. The main difference is that it always displays the current time, whereas the SVG graphic shows the current time at the beginning and then starts an animation (which is nevertheless quite accurate and, indeed, a good demonstration of the high-quality animation features of SVG). You may compare the both versions in two windows.

The SVG graphic was easier to implement. You may also compare the SVG code and the Java source code. To get the SVG code, you can just right-click on the graphic and then save it to a file. The Java applet page contains a link to an archive that also contains the source code. Have fun!