Sentence examples for dial hand from inspiring English sources

In his Nobel lecture, Mr. Heaney described listening to the radio as a child, and how he "got used to hearing short bursts of foreign languages as the dial hand swept round".

Mr. Smith himself personally completes all the case, dial, hand and final assembly work, and he wears each watch on his own wrist for two weeks to ensure that it is in perfect working order before it is handed over to its buyer.

Get some Dial hand soap, as this tends to work the best.

Also popular this year: rubber straps, red dial hands, retrogrades (linear rather than circular time readouts), tourbillions (rotating devices inside watches that supposedly counter the effects of gravity), steel, diamonds for men ("and I don't mean just men in Miami and New Jersey," according to one publicist).

"Don't have the dial hands replaced, you don't want the case overpolished," both of which greatly devalue the watch.

Lot 48, a Rolex "Steve McQueen" Explorer II Reference 1655: the auction house describes this as an extremely well-preserved example of a circa 1973 Rolex Explorer II with original bezel, dial, hands, and luminous indices.

There he watches workers frantically push dial hands back and forth.

The movement of the dial hands are about as exciting as the numbers they pass in split second motion or by the minute and hour.

Later I expanded the number to nine, first of all to smooth over a couple of jumps that seemed too abrupt – I was very keen for time to sneak up on my men, as it does in life – "Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,/ Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived" – and also to achieve the pleasing symmetry of three stories for each of the three ages.

Everything is done in house with the exception of the dials, hands, straps and cases.

Why didn't Dial just hand Che over to his father or his grandmother?