Back then swatch really blew it by not synching the zero with UTC. If the days had been UTC based, this might have taken off. This way, it was just a joke and that’s why it died quickly.
I wish I could find it now, since it did exactly what we're discussing.
https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch/blob/main/movem...
If the time had been entirely separate or arbitrary that argument would hold, but the time was a normal "24 hour clock" that synced up to the standard day rotation, but centered on Zurich.
Because of that, the choice not to use UTC, but instead to UTC+1 meant that to do a calculation of UTC, which is the standard time measurement for earth, you had to subtract 41.6 beats, which was silly.