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nailer
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The Mystery of Numerical Notation on the Dial Plat...
TLDR; it’s a watchmakers four and IIII is for horizontal symmetry against the heavy VIII for eight.
kergonath
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It is not. It is an ancient notation that became fashionable again when clocks were being developed. Watchmakers just followed the sensibilities of their times, and everything sophisticated had to look Roman.
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> became fashionable again when clocks were being developed
Why do you think it become fashionable again when clocks were being developed?
lupire
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IIX for a watchmakers 8 would be even more symmetrical.
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