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Stripey
·I use my chronos for timing tasks at work, as I charge by time spent.
Do you use your chrono?!
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DoctorEvil
·Indeed, this hobby is supposed to be fun I thought. These are all toys in the end, because I could accomplish all that my chronograph does and much more just using my phone. So really if one has a "justifiable need" for one model over another (or for having a watch at all) is kind of irrelevant in the big picture, at least for me. Different strokes...
Couldn't have said it better.
How many of us who own dive watches actually use it to go scuba diving? Or how many GMT owners actually use it for navigation on transcontinental flights? In the modern world, almost every function our watches once performed can now be done on a smart phone so the wristwatch is just a backup. Even divers now tend to use dive computers rather than traditional watches.
Agree with the above post that watches are now mostly expensive toys and we're a bit like kids playing "dress ups". We love them because they take us back to a bygone era when these were indispensable tools used for important jobs. Is it fun to play with them? Hell yeah! A mechanical watch is something special. They're marvels of design and engineering, and we love to look at them and wonder what makes them tick (pun intended) 😉.
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pdxleaf
··So on and so on and scoobie doobie dooThank Zeus for chronographs.
Pizza in 20.
Pizza in 20.
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Canuck
·I repair a lot of 400-day clocks, which involves replacing the suspension spring. I have 5 chronographs, and one pocket timer. It is an Elgin “jitterbug” timer which was U S military war surplus, decades ago. It is the only chronograph/timer that I really use. Most 400-day clocks tick either 8 to 10 times in a minute. The seconds hand on the Elgin traverses the dial in 10 seconds, or 6 revolutions in a minute. When timing a 400-day clock, I start the timer and the clock pendulum simultaneously. After one swing of the pendulum, I count 1, repeating for each revolution. At the end of the 8th (or 10 th) swing of the pendulum, I stop the timer. Because the seconds hand travels so fast, I can tell in tenths of a second whether the clock is gaining or losing. Within minutes, I can adjust the clock to within about 5 minutes in 24-hours. This operation can involve days without this timer. Otherwise, if I am wearing a chronograph, the chronograph is running…….for no good reason.
Check the size of the balance wheel on the Elgin. It ticks probably 20-times a second, hence the nickname “jitterbug”.
Check the size of the balance wheel on the Elgin. It ticks probably 20-times a second, hence the nickname “jitterbug”.
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StudebakerHawk
·I use it for long shutter releases (mechanical shutters) - click chrono and cable release at the same time. Very handy for very long release in the multiple minutes range. I did a series of exposures (on film- can’t do it in digital), where I left the shutter open for a series of long exposures (in the hours each range) of the night sky in the open desert of Arizona- you could see the Stars spiraling around the North Star. Speedy timed each of those.
Do you have any examples of this?
What is your film choice? Camera body?
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sheepdoll
·I used to have a tow bar on my Honda Civic for towing my calliope. So who really needs a truck to tow things? I rarely play the calliope anymore as the neighbors (and my dad) sometimes say it it too loud. It is not really playing the songs, it is the tuning and adjusting the playing mechanism that seems to bother other people. The same note, over and over. then the next, and the next ...
As for the chronographs. Not much use when playing a calliope. I think I counted at least 25 including the timers. I have been wearing the venus 170 a bit lately. I may have run the crono at one of the dickens fair rehearsals, just because I could. The others are waiting for me to be motivated again to work on them. Or else I am waiting for the missing pushers to turn up. I did get a bar of stainless, last week, to play with, but forgot where I put it. I also got a pound of nickel welding rod to see if I might plate some of the cases, or else use the rod to make a pusher.
As for the chronographs. Not much use when playing a calliope. I think I counted at least 25 including the timers. I have been wearing the venus 170 a bit lately. I may have run the crono at one of the dickens fair rehearsals, just because I could. The others are waiting for me to be motivated again to work on them. Or else I am waiting for the missing pushers to turn up. I did get a bar of stainless, last week, to play with, but forgot where I put it. I also got a pound of nickel welding rod to see if I might plate some of the cases, or else use the rod to make a pusher.
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SpeedyPhill
·Just checked a large aviation/spaceflight photo collection: 130 of 1515 photos show the chronograph hand running on an Omega Speedmaster chronograph worn by an astronaut or cosmonaut. Let's say almost 10% of the photos.
Oldest = December 1962 photo of Donald Slayton, the most recent was April 2022 Eytan Stibbe on the Silver Snoopy Speedmaster during Axiom-1 mission. #MoonwatchUniverse
Oldest = December 1962 photo of Donald Slayton, the most recent was April 2022 Eytan Stibbe on the Silver Snoopy Speedmaster during Axiom-1 mission. #MoonwatchUniverse
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hen
·I use it as often as I go to the moon! 😉
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TwinPeaks
·I use mine to time our setlist for my band. Most shows we play are 20-30 mins sets so being on-time and not overplaying is a MUST!
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Duracuir1
·I sometimes use mine to verify how accurate my 1997 Z3’s speedometer is. That speedometer has been consistently slow by 5%. I first noticed this when using a Garmin GPS back when they were popular.
When I drove police cars they were marked
« certified calibration ». And yes, those speedometers were more accurate. I will see if @Mad Dog can confirm that his old Crown Vic’s speedometer is still calibrated.
I also time my walks.
When I drove police cars they were marked
« certified calibration ». And yes, those speedometers were more accurate. I will see if @Mad Dog can confirm that his old Crown Vic’s speedometer is still calibrated.
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kohster
·Back when I had a tachymeter-equipped chronograph (a Seiko quartz many years ago), I used the tachymeter all the time to check the speedometers on our family's cars. Generally at highway speeds they were always indicating a few mph fast. Which is probably intentional and similar to how people would likely want their watches running a few seconds fast per day as opposed to a few seconds slow.
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RevZMan123
·I use mine to time our setlist for my band. Most shows we play are 20-30 mins sets so being on-time and not overplaying is a MUST!
Same here. Though if it's at 9-10 o clock it can be difficult to read the important totalizer lol.
AND I did use my breitling Chrono to time portions of cooking dinner tonight, I only forgot about it a few times.
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Syzygy
·I'll use it occasionally at work to time tasks, but mostly I use it as a date function.
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Bernhard J
·I use it for setting up the pendulum of vintage clocks after service. Just as a coarse adjustment over 5 minutes.
And occasionally while cooking. In particular noodles are very sensitve for wrong boiling time.
And occasionally while cooking. In particular noodles are very sensitve for wrong boiling time.
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miccro
·id like to say yes... but..........No not really
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Deafboy
··His Holiness Puer SurdusI don't have a chronograph, but I do use the alarm regularly on my Cricket. It's a useful watch complication.
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janice&fred
·I dunno nothin bout no chronografs. Still tryin to figer out what these 3 hands do.
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noless
·I use my chronograph every single day for timing my manual espresso machine, I like having the tactile feedback that I definitely started the timer, the timer in my coffee scales the button is capacitive, so sometimes I dont know if it actually started.
I initially started more because the speedy was new to me and it was a novel use case, but I came to really like the tactile feedback, and even days when I'm not wearing a chrono I still grab it for making mine and the wife's coffee each morning.
I initially started more because the speedy was new to me and it was a novel use case, but I came to really like the tactile feedback, and even days when I'm not wearing a chrono I still grab it for making mine and the wife's coffee each morning.
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prateeko
·Whenever I have a chrono on the wrist I tend to use it a few times over the course of the day for timing various things. Professionally I use it to track my time from going from home to work when called it, but even then it's not entirely necessary since that's also automated.
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Rodentman
·I activate my chrono watches every so often to make sure they function.
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