Chronograph Sports Watches
Having a chronograph watch gives delicacy! Many outstanding persons wear chronograph watches because of its exciting appearance. However, not only because of its alluring image makes a chronograph a precious timepiece, but it is also because of sophisticated mechanism and delicate its craftsmanship.
A chronograph watch is not just a simple timepiece. It is a timepiece with a stopwatch function in addition to regular timekeeping. This feature allows one to measure elapsed time – for example, measuring the duration of a sporting event. Therefore, chronographs have become very popular by many great athletes.
Although a chronograph watch might appear to be very complicated with all its buttons and sub dials, it is actually very simple to use. Following is an easy-to-understand explanation on how this watch works.
Chronograph watches have two buttons on the right side of the case. The top button, the one positioned at around two o’clock, starts and stops the stopwatch. When the button is pressed, a large seconds hand starts moving around the dial, finishing a full round of the dial in 60 seconds. When the button is depressed again, the hand stops moving. So if you want to time the duration of a short event, just depress the top button at the start of the race and again at the exact moment the finishing line is crossed. Now look where the hand stopped – that is how many seconds the race took. Once you have recorded the elapsed time and you want to reset the chronograph hand to its zero position, at twelve o’clock, press the lower right button. You are now ready to start timing your next event! It is that simple! Just start, stop and reset!
Some Chronographs may have additional sub dials. You might have one sub dial showing 3 or 12-hour calibrations. This counter records longer events, like airplane flights. It takes the large chronograph hand to circle the dial 60 times for this sub dial to move one notch, showing one hour elapsed.
You may realize that one of the sub dials moves rapidly when the stopwatch function is stopped. You are probably seeing tenths or hundredths of a second being measured.
As each chronograph watch owns various numbers of sub dials and features, it is better for you to read the watch manual if you are looking for the exact function. Please remind of that your chronograph is not just a simple timepiece. Actually, it is a sophisticated timepiece but simple to use.
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