PAM 250 - What's the purpose of the bezel?

[tankster]

A noob question - but what exactly does the bezel do other than look very studly? It doesn't rotate - so what does it measure?

[blackbard]

It is a tachymeter bezel used to measure the speed of traveling opjects. Useful if you are timing moving objects. And yes, it does help the watch look studly...

[tankster]

Indeed - I found this very useful link explaining how to use it. The inner geek in me is delighted!

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/10/how-to-use-tachymeter-function-on-watch-bezel-usage-instruction-and-definition/

[blackbard]

Cool!

[marinamm20]

Tachymeter illustration. Depending on on the range of the scale printed on the bezel, tachymetre timer normally works and valid for all elapsed times from about 7.2 seconds to 60 seconds, thus only able to measure speed greater than 60 miles per hour or 60 kilometers per hour.

To use tachymeter, simply start the chronograph or stopwatch when the object measured passing the starting line. When the object reaches the next mile or kilometer marker, stop the chronograph or stopwatch. The point on the tachymeter scale that adjacent to the second hand of the watch indicating the speed (in miles per hour or kilometers per hour) of object traveling between the two points.

For example, we want to measure the average speed of a vehicle is moving. Start the chronometer or stopwatch function when the car passes the starting line, and stop the timer after the vehicle traveled exactly 1 mile or 1 kilometer. Then look at where the chronometer hand (the second hand of the watch) is pointing to, and get the reading or value of the corresponding number at the tachymeter bezel or dial. Let