What Are Chronograph Watches And Why You Should Buy One Made By The Swiss?
A chronograph watch operates like the common stopwatch. It was first introduced as a wristwatch almost one hundred years ago (way back in 1910). This type of watch took off immediately, and proved to be very popular. In 1990, the famous watch making company “Swatch” helped to create a public frenzy for chronograph watches. The chronograph was invented by a Frenchman, called Rieussec, in 1821. So it actually took eighty-nine years before someone thought of making it into a wristwatch. However, the chronograph watch should be more accurately called a chronoscope nowadays, as there is no real writing involved anymore as the word chronograph derives from the Greek words “chronos” which means “time”, and “graph” which means “writing”. How it works Besides general timekeeping on the main dial, they also have subsidiary dials which have a variety of scales on them, meaning they can be used for very specific time measurements. The number of dials on a chronograph watch varies depending on the
