Know your chronograph! What can be read from your watch?
Watches tell nothing but the time. It is a frequently heard comment that gives many a watch enthusiast the creeps. Watches are so much more; over the years, numerous watches have been developed with extra functions that go much further than just telling the time. Watches have been developed for aviation, water sports or specifically for racing. Watches with features that most people don't even know what to do with them. Two well-known functions that you are guaranteed to have seen more often on a watch are the chronograph and the tachymeter. Both give your watch a tough and sporty appearance, but are not designed to just look good in the first place. Both actually serve a function. Learning how these functions work together can make your watch a useful measuring tool. If you have no idea how your chronograph works against the numbers on the tachymeter scale, read on. How do you use the chronograph function? In short, chronograph is just a fancy word for stopwatch. This feature was