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styggpyggeno1

·Jan 13, 2015

Kettil

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I think STANDY means that in the English word order (which is on the dial version I call English) it should be
Zenith
Automatic
Chronometer

The French word order is
Chronometre
Zenith
Automatic

This third one has the English spelling chronometer but the French word order.

 

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STANDY

·Jan 13, 2015·schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector

Thanks @styggpyggeno1 , was editing as i tried to do the same as you but next to each other and it came out weird when posted

 

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styggpyggeno1

·Jan 13, 2015

Funny - the more you look...
I have never noticed that the white gold ones have yet another order visavi (does that word work?) spelling = English order but with French spelling of chronometer. The opposite of the one we are discussing.

 

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Stewart H

·Jan 13, 2015

Chronometer is the American spelling of the word. In English, we spell it as the French. I don't say this to be pedantic but it may indicate a particular market or, if it is a re-finished dial, as a possible source of the work.

 

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styggpyggeno1

·Jan 13, 2015

Thanks - I appreciate it.
This is interesting as I now suddenly realize yet another semantic meander - I do know that "meter" is spelled "metre" in English. But then I sort of mixed it up because we spell it kronometer (Swedish) which makes it closer to chronometer. Do the Americans spell the distance "meter" - metre or is it just chronometre that has become chronometer?

PS - it might be too late to change everything to "the American". My theory has been - from the beginning - that the American was made for just that market... Which with your help now seems even more likely.😀

Edited: Jan 13, 2015

 

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LouS

·Jan 13, 2015·Mrs Nataf's Other Son

The correct American spelling is indeed "meter." Of course, we don't use the metric system, so we don't have cause to spell it often.

 

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styggpyggeno1

·Jan 13, 2015

Why have you not told me earlier - letting me rant for years about English and French?

Was it not president Carter who decided to implement the metric system in the US? Are you not officially metric?

 

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cicindela

·Jan 13, 2015·Steve @ ΩF

styggpyggeno1

Why have you not told me earlier - letting me rant for years about English and French?

Was it not president Carter who decided to implement the metric system in the US? Are you not officially metric?

Never actually happened. Proposed but stopped.

The result:
One section of highway I-19 from Nogales Arizona to Tucson, at I-10. A total of 90km in the US. Everything else is still miles with no plans to change. 😁

 

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LouS

·Jan 13, 2015·Mrs Nataf's Other Son

I thought you spelled it "President Cartre" over there.

 

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styggpyggeno1

·Jan 13, 2015

We just call him "that president that smiled from ear to ear" or "peanuts". Read somewhere that he had quite a distinguised career after being president - getting more done afterwards so to speak?

 

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LouS

·Jan 13, 2015·Mrs Nataf's Other Son

He is not generally regarded as having been among the more effective presidents, although full of good intention. The metric system business is illustrative, I think. He did keep quite true to his vision of what was right after he left office, to his credit.

 

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·Jan 14, 2015·schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector

Not that this helps

http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/Spelling_metre_or_meter.pdf

 

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Kettil

·Jan 14, 2015

styggpyggeno1

I think STANDY means that in the English word order (which is on the dial version I call English) it should be
Zenith
Automatic
Chronometer

The French word order is
Chronometre
Zenith
Automatic

This third one has the English spelling chronometer but the French word order.

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Thanks @styggpyggeno1 , was editing as i tried to do the same as you but next to each other and it came out weird when posted

Thank you guys. Then I understand. /K

 

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Kettil

·Jan 14, 2015

Stewart H

Chronometer is the American spelling of the word. In English, we spell it as the French. I don't say this to be pedantic but it may indicate a particular market or, if it is a re-finished dial, as a possible source of the work.

Then I have an "American" … 😀

 

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styggpyggeno1

·Jan 15, 2015

Jepp!

😀

 

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Veritas99

·Feb 10, 2015

Finally remembered to wear it on the right day

 

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Adri

·Feb 10, 2015

Have I heard turtle Tuesday?

I'm looking for a nice Zenith "turtle"

More than 100 years old

 

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SeanO

·Feb 12, 2015

with a dial like that it's obviously not refinished.

 

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·Feb 13, 2015·schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector

Wanting to keep all this on one thread for future use

Bit more research on the Turtle to update @styggpyggeno1 and need some help on this one all
Do all with the spelling Chronometre on the dial have Chronometer on the movement

 

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MMMD

·Feb 13, 2015

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Do all with the spelling Chronometre on the dial have Chronometer on the movement

Yes, I think that's true for the 25xx calibres.