Why Does the Clock, Minute Hand of the Watch Run from Right to Left

Looking at the clock for years but surely many people do not understand why the clock hands run in the same direction. Let's find out what's interesting behind this seemingly obvious thing.

Key Facts About Clock

In ancient times, people relied on the relative movement of the Sun to the Earth to calculate time. They created a solar clock by closing a vertical column into the shadow cover. Since the Sun moves from East to West, the shadow of the column also moves from West to East. The ancient people calculated the time based on the position of the Sun, when the Sun was the highest, the ball coincided with the column as the main time of the afternoon.

The direction of movement of the column depends on your standing position on Earth. If you are in the northern half of the hemisphere, the Sun appears from left to right, so you will see the shadow of the Sun's clock going from West to East.

If you are in the southern hemisphere, the Sun appears in the opposite direction, so the shadow of the Sun's pile will go from East to West.

The first mechanical watch was born in the 14th century and in the northern hemisphere, it was set to turn the clockwise direction from right to left. If that watch was born in the southern hemisphere, then perhaps our watch faces were already running in the opposite direction.