Analog Clock w/ Increment - does it exist?

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MrMiglin

The title explains it all. I'm guessing I'll get a "no," but I thought I'd try anyway.

notmtwain
MrMiglin wrote:

The title explains it all. I'm guessing I'll get a "no," but I thought I'd try anyway.

Even if it exists only in your imagination, then it exists.

bong711

There are analog stopwatch so analog fischer clocks can be made.. I hope it is sold in Russia.

FrankHelwig

I cannot prove a negative, but I have done a fair bit of research into analog chess clocks and have never come across such a clock.

notmtwain

Such clocks have existed. In 2001, Garde made one.

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See the thread: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/chess-clock-and-a-mistery

notmtwain

A video demonstrating the amazing Garde analog/digital clock, including a demonstration of the Fischer bonus.

MrMiglin

That's awesome! Thank you

FrankHelwig
notmtwain wrote:

Such clocks have existed. In 2001, Garde made one.

ah, true - forgot about this one. Thanks. 

Gamegrunt

It doesn't appear to be available, but perhaps it is and I'm not finding where it is offered.  It may have been that there isn't enough of a market for a relatively expensive chess clock with these features when digital only are comparatively inexpensive. Was 2001 the last year that Garde offered an analog with increments? -Gg

Die_Schanze

I just started chess in 2004, in that year or shortly after that clock was available in the chess shops. Then the full-electronic Garde came, it is still available in some shops, but sold out in some others. 

Now the company http://www.eurochessinternational.com/index.html produces even the mechanical clocks i think somewhere east of germany. They have a new small Garde start, which  looks like a small DGT. They produce also this clock called "Silver", which  is fide certified.

notmtwain
Gamegrunt wrote:

It doesn't appear to be available, but perhaps it is and I'm not finding where it is offered.  It may have been that there isn't enough of a market for a relatively expensive chess clock with these features when digital only are comparatively inexpensive. Was 2001 the last year that Garde offered an analog with increments? -Gg

I don't know how long they were made but the other thread said it wasn't long.

I found one currently being sold

PastMyPr1me

Hey Paul. Im a bit late to the party-- and truth in advertising, i now work for team Tempest but absolutely know where you're coming from! The beauty of analog (it just looks right next to a classic chess set!) was suddenly lost the moment we decided we were going to use complex modern time controls like increment, delays, move counted periods, etc. Though maybe not what you were looking for, Tempest is certainly ONE attempt to bring sexy back analog style and kudos to Garde for the other notable entry. Both, i believe, are coming from the same place: the love of analog controls, and the sheer visiblity of an angle of arc (representing time left) compared to digits. (there is science showing we are hard wired to perceive 'amounts' by angles rather than abstract digits which we more or less invented recently.. so in many ways analog is more primitive, let alone elegant.). anyway paul, not selling (!) just wanted to add my voice, that i agree! and that's exactly why this feature exists here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYbEcPCoNtw i don't know if that's what you were looking for, but just wanted you to be aware of this novel entry into the analog-increment space. cheers!