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What's the meaning of the red stripe?
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>>458380
I think it just looks cool
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It contrasts with black.
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>>458382
does that help?
I mean so does white, yellow, green, magenta,...

my guess is that someone randomly came up with it and it became part of a certain design culture/aesthetic/style. (like 80s neon style)
maybe finding the original source will lead to more insights? I could see it even having served a technical purpose originally
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>>458380
red is the most powerful color so it is hard to use with other color but a small amount added to black has a good relationship
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>>458383
>served a technical purpose originally

Red is traditionally used to amplify a warning or boundary- a dial tachometer uses a literal red line to mark the RPM limit an engine cannot go over without imminent risk of damage, and that idea has become a common term for pushing something to its limits even where no such device is in use. The other common use as a danger zone boundary marker on things like maps and walkway/road markings is also used this way where no actual line is visible.

In the examples shown the red line serves these purposes on the camera lens by marking the limits of where you can safely put your fingers without touching the lens itself. On the digital watch it gives a quick visual reference of where the important data is contained- not very consequential on a single watch but if you had an entire panel of displays nested together it can help the eye to organize them and exclude extraneous space when scanning them.

It absolutely serves a technical purpose in some applications and that's why it's used to convey a "high tech" or "performance" aesthetic on products where that's a selling point, even where there's no need and/or its location can't possibly serve any practical purpose. Note that all of those devices are technically advanced items that are seen as "better" if you gussy them up with tech-y trim.
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>>458382
Yes and no- in other conditions besides adequate full spectrum lighting, red and black can appear virtually identical.
This was used to great practical effect in photography and related graphic production in the pre-digital days, and is still used in some areas-
>Rubylith® is a red masking film, which is suited for use with orthochromatic films. Rubylith®is "safe" for use with camera speed darkroom films as well as indirect gelatin stencil films and diazo, diazo acrylic, or SBQ sensitized stencil films or emulsions. Rubylith® is primarily used in the camera and plate making operations for offset lithography, flexography, gravure, and screen processes where orthochromatic films and plates are used.

As shown in picrel, certain types of photosensitive emulsions/films "see" saturated reds as black in full spectrum lighting, which is why a red film like Rubylith is as good as opaque for making masks to work with those emulsions.
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Depends on who's talking
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>>458380
it look good :)



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