Have you ever wonder why the wall CLOCKS in-store, are always show 10:10?

You may or mayn't have heard - oh that's just because,

• It could have be the logo of the very first watch maker
• May be myths out of the way, memorial 4 Lincoln/ JF. Kennedy/Martin Luther King were shot. 

On a side note,

The logo/first time piece maker, in the form of pendent with the hanging spring.
Also, Lincoln was shot at 10:15pm, JF Kendey was shot at 12:30 pm etc..

Actual reason be, that was 1 of 2 options left, to show the clock hands in symmetrical arrangement, while makers evolved accommodating the below over a period:

1. 1st being the manufacturer's logo
2. Later on & on - additional elements like date, day, month, AM/PM, year etc.. found their attractive pie around 3, 6 & 9; in-fact looked nice & cool too.

Somehow dial got it's components(leme call it as xtra-fittings or cosmetics😉) on it, and maker too would have satisfied by then. Although model looked nice w/ cosmetics, aren't it's organs(hour & minute hands) important to run(do well in market), and where wud they place it?? That's where the only 2 options(referred previously) left to show hands symmetrically - 8:20 or 10;10.

 

Marketing apart(despite where/when/whom to sell), what does world accepts?

Logically - 10:10 is not perfectly symmetrical, as the hour hand has moved one-sixth of an hour towards the 11, note that a couple of the timepieces in the picture are actually set to 10:08 or 10:09, presumably for greater symmetry.

Later than never - just in case, if one wish to know who gave the birth to watch?
Peter Henlein the german craftsman is often credited as the inventor of the "clock-watches" (taschenuhr), around Aug 1485.

Trend as taken turn(left? right? u-turn? it's 360 degree; everything @ 1 touch, and when i said everything - something that attracts/be the necessary for one, few BUT need not be for all. And this is where the customize-able takes birth👍