Why do some analog clocks with Roman numerals have '4' as 'IV,' while others have 'IIII'? This is one of those questions where no one seems to have a definitive answer, and probably no one ever will.

And after that, all clocks had IIII instead of IV ... whirring and chiming mechanical timepieces: The Roman numerals on most clocks are centripetal, that is, they are not horizontal but ...

Ask someone to draw the face of an old grandfather’s clock with the Roman numerals placed correctly. Most of the numbers are easy — either IIII or IV is correct as the Roman numeral ...

Do you want to win a bet? Ask someone to draw the face of an old grandfather clock with the Roman numerals placed correctly. Most of the numbers are easy — either IIII or IV is correct as the ...

there are still a few instances in which Roman numerals are commonly used: on clock faces, to identify lineages -- particularly for royalty and other important figures -- and to denote each ...

The dial uses Roman numerals and depicts four as IIII, not IV. But it’s not wrong, according to Noel Poirier, director of the National Watch & Clock Museum in Columbia. Both IIII and IV can be ...

Roman numerals, unsurprisingly, date back to ancient Rome, and while they’re no longer commonplace, they do still occur outside of the Super Bowl use case: they sometimes appear on clock faces, or ...