All smart phones have a digital stop watch on it, and most people have one. So I am curious how many owners of the Speedmaster use the stop watch on it and for what purpose? Do most buy it just for the look and perhaps use the stop watch for odd things like how long will it take your wife to leave the supermarket to come back to the car
Mine's a Seamaster, 861 chrono, but I time bone-in ribeyes on the grill (4.5 mins. per side for rare, 1 1/2 inches thick) and check the zebra's time in soccer/football matches. What else is there? Could use a yachting every few years for America's Cup starts.
I use my Speedy to keep track of cooking time. For me, it's the most expedient way to go about it. I don't use any alarms or buzzers and such.
I use mine when I go running which is almost every day, also time cooking things, and of course I would use it to do a correction burn if I was on the way back to earth from the Moon.... But yeah. Handy to have a stop watch, I have always had one even before the Speedy, the Seiko 7A28 I have has one too.....I like the analogue display.
My first and most important timing task with my Speedmaster Professional is to time the 60 seconds of timeout for our unruly first toddler son. Do you know how long those 60secs seemed???
Yes I do but not to time that! It's lume is good enough to last 8 hours. I check time when I get up for leak at night.
I use it to track how many cups of water I drink each day. I have the 3576 with moon phase, so there is a bit of a fun motivating factor – as I tick off each cup of water, the chronograph hand moves clear of the moon phase and I get a better view of it. I try to drink 8 cups a day. When I pour a cup or two, I advance the seconds hand accordingly. I also use it to time my lunch break or my 8 hours of work when I work for a few hours at a time throughout the day, to make sure I get up to 8 hours. When I’m not tracking water intake, sometimes I set the chronograph seconds hand to the hash mark corresponding to the number of that day’s date. Even though my speedmaster has a date, it is very small, and the chronograph hand is easier to read. Finally, sometimes I let it run for a while and then stop it when the seconds, minutes and hour hands are in interesting configurations, just to give a different look to the dial.
I actually run it often as a seconds hand + GMT (Zulu) time zone. Start it at 00:00 or 12:00 GMT and you get a free additional time zone. I like looking at the chrono hand better than the small "official" seconds hand.