To use a chronograph, you depress one of the pushers on the side of the case, engaging the function to get the second hand moving. Because of their extra stopwatch function, chronographs have traditionally been more expensive than time-only watches - though new additions to the chronograph market have added lots of value and affordability to your options. Most chronographs today feature dual pushers, which are both useful for starting and stopping the chronograph mechanism and also lend a cool aesthetic aspect to one side of the watch. In short, a modern chronograph tells the time traditionally and, using a distinct mechanical complication, also can record seconds, minutes, and hours (usually) in a stopwatch-style function. The mechanism was soon miniaturized and added to pocket watches. These recorded on two rotating discs of paper the difference in time between two horses on a race track.
Its name is derived from one of the earliest versions of the mechanism, which was essentially a box filled with clockwork attached to two inky styluses.
Chronograph means “time writer,” but you can think of it as a stopwatch, activated and stopped at the whim of its user.
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