Has anyone else used this type of date display?

I stumbled across a Vandenbroeck & Cie watch the other day on the internet that had an unusual skeleton date display. The mechanics of it are common, but I thought the presentation was interesting. I guess what got me, was the idea of having the numbers all visible, but only the two relevant ones are easy to read. Has anyone else done this? Perhaps in a bit less clumsy way? It's really a shame it's such a mediocre watch, though I may still end up getting one, just because of that cool date d