clock faces

[riudor]

A friend has just bought a house with a clock face on the exerior wall which shows the time ten minutes to two.Is there any significance or superstition with this time.

[sir.prize]

Most manufacturers� trademarks are just above the centre of the dial, and
having the hands at 10 past10 causes your eye to naturally follow to the
trough, thus bringing your view right to the trademark. And often
the Model name is also centred, ruling out any hand
more or less straight down (between 5 and 7). Date windows most often
are at 9 or 3, and subsidiary seconds usually at 6. For aesthetic
reasons you want the two hands neither nearly covering each other nor
nearly in a straight line. By default the 10: past10 looks pretty good � almost like a smile.

[riudor]

thank you sir.prize.

[Brooksy]

It shows the correct time twice a day!

[boogieboogie]

As sir.prize says and symetry is more aesthetically pleasing, as peoples faces clock faces too.. :-) nothing supersticious.. just looks better.

[squarebear]

This is why every advert for clocks and watches in magazines and catalogues always show the time at either 10 to two or ten past 10. It makes the clock looks as though it is smiling.

This is so engraved into advertiser's minds that even digital watches invariably show 10:10.

[EngTeach]

You are right about the smile thing. My mom and my sister both work(ed) for Tourneau, a large watch company and I did a summer stint there too, and this is what i was told by the marketing people. (Just another piece of useless information I astound people with!!!)