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amcclell
·No - I almost always have a watch on.
Do you use your chrono?!
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Cenzo
·I use mine all the time. Timing walks around the park, cooking, timing presentations for work, seeing how long it takes to drive somewhere, timing all sorts of things.
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DoctorEvil
·I sell industrial machinery. When I'm at a customer's facility I'll often use a chrono to monitor cycle times.
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stevec14
·I use my chrono hand as a date. Set it to the right second to correspond to the date and off you go.
I don’t mind doing it as visually I prefer a chrono to most other watches
I don’t mind doing it as visually I prefer a chrono to most other watches
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vanvan
·Honestly...ehm nope I don't use it. Hence why I lately prefer non-chrono watches.
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Rochete
·Once when I get the watch to test the function, and then some years later if I sell it, to test the function again. I peaked at about thirty chronos, got bored, only three remain.
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krogerfoot
·I use my chrono hand as a date. Set it to the right second to correspond to the date and off you go.
I don’t mind doing it as visually I prefer a chrono to most other watches
It drives me crazy because I actually do find the chrono function to be handy. When doing corporate training things I often want to let an activity run for X more seconds or minutes and time that without looking at a wall clock, my phone, or a computer screen.
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Flatfoot
·I use the chronograph function a lot, and have for years. Certainly use the function for timing burgers, steaks and chicken on the grill, and transit times.
I design and build production machinery, and timing rates of production speed expressed in containers per minute is pretty much second nature to me. It does involve the ability to count the containers passing by at speeds of up to 300 per minute, so that takes some concentration.
Track day lap times in the past were done with a chronograph, and clicked on the start finish line- at least up until the advent of automatic trackside timers, or sport chrono functions built into the cockpit of more modern cars. I fly the Speedmaster “flag” in honor of those earlier timing events.
I’m still designing and building rubber powered free flight model airplanes, and time nearly every flight with a chronograph. Picture below is of a Mitsubishi “Dinah” twin, with a Sinn 140/42 on my left wrist. Right after launch, my R hand is trained to press the start pusher. It’s like muscle memory for me. I’d be lost without a chronograph, to be honest.
I design and build production machinery, and timing rates of production speed expressed in containers per minute is pretty much second nature to me. It does involve the ability to count the containers passing by at speeds of up to 300 per minute, so that takes some concentration.
Track day lap times in the past were done with a chronograph, and clicked on the start finish line- at least up until the advent of automatic trackside timers, or sport chrono functions built into the cockpit of more modern cars. I fly the Speedmaster “flag” in honor of those earlier timing events.
I’m still designing and building rubber powered free flight model airplanes, and time nearly every flight with a chronograph. Picture below is of a Mitsubishi “Dinah” twin, with a Sinn 140/42 on my left wrist. Right after launch, my R hand is trained to press the start pusher. It’s like muscle memory for me. I’d be lost without a chronograph, to be honest.
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DoctorEvil
·I use the chronograph function a lot, and have for years. Certainly use the function for timing burgers, steaks and chicken on the grill, and transit times.
I design and build production machinery, and timing rates of production speed expressed in containers per minute is pretty much second nature to me. It does involve the ability to count the containers passing by at speeds of up to 300 per minute, so that takes some concentration.
Track day lap times in the past were done with a chronograph, and clicked on the start finish line- at least up until the advent of automatic trackside timers, or sport chrono functions built into the cockpit of more modern cars. I fly the Speedmaster “flag” in honor of those earlier timing events.
I’m still designing and building rubber powered free flight model airplanes, and time nearly every flight with a chronograph. Picture below is of a Mitsubishi “Dinah” twin, with a Sinn 140/42 on my left wrist. Right after launch, my R hand is trained to press the start pusher. It’s like muscle memory for me. I’d be lost without a chronograph, to be honest.
Being an aviation enthusiast and former pilot, I reckon the Breitling navitimers woud be great tools for those flying light aircraft where the chrono can record elapsed time between waypoints during navigation and the circular slide rule on the bezel gives you a quick way of performing calculations "on the fly" (pun intended) 😉
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vintage hab
·I never use the chrono function. Contrary to others, i need a timer with audible sound for cooking because I generally get distracted. How do you guys do it?!?
nonetheless, I’m inspired by @revmiguel (on page 1) and will do my best to start using it, especially since i had an incoming El Primero this week 😁
nonetheless, I’m inspired by @revmiguel (on page 1) and will do my best to start using it, especially since i had an incoming El Primero this week 😁
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kcgunner
·I use it sometimes but I rarely NEED to use it. I just choose to.
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Bran8
·I only use the chrono to feel the mechanical clunk and to make sure that everything is still working as it's supposed to.
I only have chronographs because I like the aesthetics of the dial and subdials.
I only have chronographs because I like the aesthetics of the dial and subdials.
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krogerfoot
·I’m still designing and building rubber powered free flight model airplanes, and time nearly every flight with a chronograph. Picture below is of a Mitsubishi “Dinah” twin, with a Sinn 140/42 on my left wrist. Right after launch, my R hand is trained to press the start pusher. It’s like muscle memory for me. I’d be lost without a chronograph, to be honest.
That's an awesome looking model. Apologies to the others for hijacking the thread but what others do you have in your collection, if I may ask?
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Socks
·I just used to like seeing mine working. Seeing that Chrono hand sitting there doing nothing seemed a bit of a waste to me so during the day I would sometimes let it run. (Also if it was stopped couldn't bare to see it sitting at anything but straight up!)
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Bp1000
·I use it every day.
I own mostly chronographs and usage starts with a perfectly timed espresso with pre-infusion which I wish I had a split second for 😁
Throughout the day I sometimes use it to time work tasks as I like to allocate time to certain things and occasionally conference calls.
As I cook most nights I usually use it for timing cooking. Various other applications too.
Regarding some of the pulsometers I have I actually use them to count BPM. Nerdy but cool.
I own mostly chronographs and usage starts with a perfectly timed espresso with pre-infusion which I wish I had a split second for 😁
Throughout the day I sometimes use it to time work tasks as I like to allocate time to certain things and occasionally conference calls.
As I cook most nights I usually use it for timing cooking. Various other applications too.
Regarding some of the pulsometers I have I actually use them to count BPM. Nerdy but cool.
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Zephyr550
·I use chronograph for measuring coffee extraction, during cooking (steaks, eggs)... when I drive to work and back home.. and sometimes without reason (just fun to watch)
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MRC
·I've just been reminded of another use....
As part of an event [*] organisation team standing with a clipboard and my Carrera outside the rented temporary toilets timing how long the queue took first to get in and then to get out again so we could judge how many of the horribly expensive things we should order for next year's event.
[*] At Ketteringham Hall, in the Senna days at Team Lotus 👍
As part of an event [*] organisation team standing with a clipboard and my Carrera outside the rented temporary toilets timing how long the queue took first to get in and then to get out again so we could judge how many of the horribly expensive things we should order for next year's event.
[*] At Ketteringham Hall, in the Senna days at Team Lotus 👍
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