Wednesday, July 18th 2007 - Part 2
Besides doing astrophotography on Wednesday, we made our way off Mt. Palomar in the morning to travel to La Jolla to visit the corporate offices of YES watch. YES is one of our underwriters that is providing support to our production. The watches that YES produce are quite unique and very powerful timekeepers.
Bjorn Kartomten, YES founder, wanted to design a watch that provides the daily, monthly and yearly rhythm indicators that humankind use to plan their day until the modern world replaced them with a 24-hour clock. The result of Bjorn’s quest is a multifunctional watch that not only tracks time in three time zones, but also sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, lunar phases and tracks the four major solar events of the solstices and equinoxes. The user can also set any date a hundred years in the past or future to see the data for that day. I won’t go into all of the functions that the watch can do in this blog, but I will tell you that over the past five years that I have been wearing a YES watch I used more than any other timepiece I’ve ever owned. I use it to plan the dates and times that we visit locations to maximize our creativity and capture visual events that might not occur but once a year. The shot below is of the UKIRT dome on Mauna Kea that is reflecting the light of sunrise and the setting full moon. I captured this image as a direct result of using my YES watch.
The watches are as beautiful as they are functional and come in a variety of designs including a stylish ladies model. I encourage anyone that is looking for watch that can reconnect them to the motions of the earth, moon and their path around the sun to check out YES watches at http://www.yeswatch.com.