No. I believe that it is an old German standard, but if you buy
PZL instruments you can specify it to either top or bottom.

http://www.pzl.com.pl/en/produkty/os...e/pw-12-a.html

BTW, these instruments are very high quality but somewhat heavy.
Highly recommended.

Regards Stig Oye

In article , Roy Bourgeois says:

This may be a silly question - but are all metric altimeters
configured with 'Zero at 6 O'clock' as I saw in France?
I did not have trouble converting to meters/kilometers
but I did have trouble quickly reading the altimeter
with the zero at the bottom of the instrument face
(especially on the little 57mm instruments). Just
curious.

Roy