Analog-digital watches

 

— a dial that combines hands and an electronic display (in some models, several displays at once).

This design combines the advantages of both types of dials: the hands provide a convenient format for displaying the time, and the display allows you to use a wide variety of additional functions. However this combination is not applicable for mechanical watches, and it costs a little more than a purely analog or electronic dial. However, these moments are not critical: there are relatively few mechanical watches nowadays, and the mentioned price difference is often invisible against the background of the total cost of the device. But the unequivocal disadvantages of pointer-electronic dials include the fact that they must be quite large — otherwise there will be little space for the display, it will have to be made miniature, which impairs readability. Thus, most watches with such dials have a case diameter (width) of 40 mm or more (although there are exceptions).