Four Things to Know About the Chronograph - A Comprehensive Guide

Great Video! Pulsometers are my new favorite complication/scale. They are so much more useful than a tachometer! More watches should have pulsometers!

Teddy knows his shi@%

I disagree that chronographs are obsolete, as a chef it is much easier for me to set my chrono than try to pull out a smartphone.

Seiko vk63 .... Can't go wrong.

You buy a mechanical chronograph not for the timer but for the tactile experience and the visual experience of the movement when you start stop

Brietling chronomat it’s smaller in size at40.5 mm and not extremely huge like others at49mm in size. I am happy with my chronomat Breitling in stainless steal with gold links 18k

No.1 it's actually useless.

I like my Ball Fireman Storm Chaser Pro chronograph.

I feel like breitling deserves more credit then they get. Everyone always talks down on them because they don’t hold the value retention like Rolex or AP ect. But they have done great things for the watch world! I personally feel like under their new leadership they sure are in the upswing right now.

Nice to see a good and educational video. Thanks Teddy. If I have to pick one Chrono,it would be a Navitimer.

Lunar Pilot Panda 🐼 🙌

Any Chronograph to own, it would probably be the yellow gold 6239 on the Jubelee bracelet that went under the hammer a few months ago. It is not because of the price or rarity, but simply because I find it ridiculously beautiful and timeless for a vintage gold watch. (I even have a picture of it as the screensaver on my phone). However, that would be a watch I would never dare wear outside my house, preferably behind locked doors. Realistically, if I only were to have one mechanical Chronograph until I back down the dirt hole, it would probably be either a Speedmaster or a Navitimer. I love the one Richard Hammond has. If quartz, the Bulova Lunar Pilot 43,5mm all day long.

I have a solar powered quartz chrono from orient. Really love it and obviously far cheaper than mechanical options.

Nice video. I would for sure pick the omega spedmaster💪🏻⏱️

Tachymetres are so useless, even if you’re not too speedy at mental maths, you can literally imagine one is there and it’s just as effective.

Great video as always!!

It may well be a silly question…. How can you tell if the chronograph is with a horizontal or vertical clutch, esp when there isn’t a display case back? Vast majority of the brands don’t have such piece of specifications readily available…, & even if you were to ask the salespersons, again, vast majority of them just would not have a clue either…. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

I respect and admire the whole craftsmanship behind these amazing mechanical timing piece. I would love to have the money and get one of those wee time machine.

But still love my Swatch Sprinkled Water Chrono. Simple, cheap,... but I like it.

Great video!

I’ve got a cheap Timex quartz chronograph watch right now, but I’ve been looking at getting a higher-quality mechanical one for a while now. And I think I’ve settled on one now: The Sugess Chrono Master S412 SU1906SW White Dial. That watch is genuinely the coolest thing I’ve ever seen: a mechanical chronograph for an affordable price by a brand that’s well known for their incredible quality and reliability! It uses Seagull’s ST1906 caliber, which is basically the original 1963’s movement with a power reserve hand added, and it looks incredible!

*This comment is not sponsored by Sugess or Seagull; I simply wanted to say how much I’m interested in this watch, and how much of a mechanical marvel it is!

Great, informative vid, Thx! How about a video featuring the best telemeter chronos? I just learned about Monchard’s mechaquartz telemeter today and wow. Tissot telemeter? Junghans? Something more affordable with quartz movement?

My first chronograph was an Accurist quartz reverse panda dating from about 1990. I was given it as a birthday present for my 15th birthday, and amazingly it's still working fine! The abuse it suffered was beyond what most watches could cope with, as for a few years I was working as an outdoor activity instructor, teching rock climbing, and taking groups on walks up a river gorge, constantly wet and getting bashed against rocks, it's been very lucky to survive! Nowadays I've got a Doxa Sub 200 C-Graph if I need a chrono, but it's not a watch I use often.

Good and honest explanation.

Tudor BB Chrono.

I chose the Omega Speedmaster Pro MkIV 45 years ago (Omega cal. 1040, a modified Lemania cal. 1340). One journey back to Bienne for a touch-up and still going strong, keeping exceptional time. They don't make them like that anymore. In second place, I'd choose a 1986 TAG/Heuer 510.500-12 with the Lemania cal. 5012.

I have a pulsar ym62-x159 and I cannot get the chronograph to reset to 0, there's some sort of fault or something I have done that's making the watch reset to 5 second 5 minutes, so you know of a way to fix this I am have no luck at all in finding a solution

I like omega speedmaster

Great overview, Thanks!

...interesting information but why would anyone want to measure time with a watch..?

Lange and Sohn tourbillon perpetual calendar minute repeater automatic chronograph for the win.

He didn't mention the various types of sub-dials. I had to learn the hard way that some of them measure tenths or twentieths and some only measure a total of 30 minutes. And many have a 24 hour hand. I like mine to be able to measure at least a few hours. The Sugess Daytona homage has caught my eye, and the Junghans form c. (I've been retired a long time and am pretty broke.)

I just cant get that Max Bill Chrono out of my head ;-;

Thank you for uploading this. TIL what Chronographs are for. I only like them because of aesthetics and never really bothered what they are for before.

Thanks Teddy! I personally like my Zenith El Primero. It is accurate, good looking and is the thinnest in that category. My model has 100m water resistance so I can wear it all the time without a fear of getting the internals wet. And who can beat the looks of the movement and it’s 36k beat rate. Last but not the least, it is El Primero - the first integrated chronograph movement and the one not anyone but Rolex closed to drive the Daytona. Tons of heritage there. I also have a B01 Breitling, a Speedmaster and a IWC chronographs in my collection but I like the El Primero the most.

After watching this video, I realized how amazing the Rolex Daytona is, creating such a thin chronograph with oscillating weight. Considering how the Patek Philippe automatic chronographs CH28-520 are very thin as well but it's 3 to 4 times the price of a Daytona.

I love my Tudor chronograph Tiger Woods edition. And I also love my Hamilton PAN ERUP chrono.

Chronoswiss Opus is my grail chronograph.

Sir namaste

Although I have many cronographs I have to say, frankly stupid I have any. Who really needs one nowadays? Maybe someone does, buy I certainly don't. 🤔

love it, highly educational!

I got a Daytona Panda a few years ago after waiting some time, and honestly, that's all the chronograph I will ever need. It is very thin by current standards, and is incredibly accurate. Yes expensive too, but it is a time piece that my son can inherit and can think of me when I am long gone.

The thirty beat pulsometer is totally absurd. 6, 10 or 15 at maximum is what would be used. You are looking for a quick snapshot if you ever used it. Should also stress many chronos don’t have a sweep second hand

Four things to know about chronographs...1) IWC 2) Longines 3) Tag Heuer 4) Omega

One Chrono... sure, that Lange 3 split, if you're paying. Otherwise a Zenith El Primero model.

Rolex does not have their own chronograph movement. They used the one from zenith for a long time. Then modified a little bit on it and called it their own. Rubbish. Rolex was a great marketer, but not a watch maker.

If I could only choose one, it would be the omega seamaster diver 300 chronograph. It's just..... beautiful. The sound of the movement is also ASMR af

Can anyone tell me if they have ever heard anything about a watch that came into my poccesion ENZO GIOMANI CHRONOMETER GTO

Guess I have to get an Omega chrono now...

Chronographs are not that complicated, they are a rearrangement of wheels to move an additional hand for timing

Could I ask where that black Oxford shirt is from?

Is it ok to leave the chronograph hand running at all time to use it as a second hand? would it cause damages to the watch?