What exactly is a Chronograph and do they work on Reps

[cenerhimself]

Before you flame me for being a noob, I searched and searched, but I couldn't find the most basic answer for this simple question. I googled and checked on Wikipedia, but I couldn't figure out more than a few points...

What exactly is a Chronograph? Is it just a stopwatch>? I checked the noob glossary in the sticky, but nothing good.

From the Glossary:

[freddy333]

Try this (in the Wiki section) & read TZ's FAQ.

[omeega]

The large second hand which looks like a normal second hand is what you would consider the second-hand of the stopwatch. Push the top chrono pusher and it will start running in a somewhat smooth fashion. Push the top one again and it stops. Push the bottom pusher and it will reset to zero.

You are essentially correct about the minutes at 3 and hours at 6, push the top pusher and these start along with the large chrono/second hand.

The running seconds at nine subdial will be running all the time as a regular second hand on a watch would, smooth motion without ticking, keeping track of normal time. This does not change with the chronograph/stopwatch function.

[omeega]

And the top left "button" is the helium escape valve, essentially functionless on a replica. Yes, the middle right "button" is the normal "winder" known as a "crown" that adjusts the time and date. The top right button starts and stops the "stopwatch" (chronograph) and the bottom resets the stopwatch hands.

[lanikai]

Shucks... and all this time I thopught a Chronograph was a multiple record playin Phonograph...

[cenerhimself]

  omeega said:

The large second hand which looks like a normal second hand is what you would consider the second-hand of the stopwatch. Push the top chrono pusher and it will start running in a somewhat smooth fashion. Push the top one again and it stops. Push the bottom pusher and it will reset to zero.

You are essentially correct about the minutes at 3 and hours at 6, push the top pusher and these start along with the large chrono/second hand.

The running seconds at nine subdial will be running all the time as a regular second hand on a watch would, smooth motion without ticking, keeping track of normal time. This does not change with the chronograph/stopwatch function.

Wow thats helpful, thanks. So on a chronograph watch, the second hand is not the normal second hand that would be found on a wall clock. The second hand will basically always be at 12 and the way to read the time in seconds in the 9 o clock in this example. Thanks!

[Shundi]

Bingo

[lanikai]

  Shundi said:

Bingo

doing nothing but viewing your avatar Shun ....

[cenerhimself]

  Shundi said:

Bingo

Thanks!