A Technical Perspective, All You Need to Know About Chronographs

Chronographs are certainly amongst the most popular watches. However, the word chronograph refers to a complication, an additional function to the display of the time, not as a fixed type of watch. As such, you’ll find chronographs in all price segments – basically, from 3-digit prices to almost infinity. A chronograph can be accessible, can be complex, can be industrially made or manufactured by hand, it can use multiple technologies, it can be combined to additional functions or complications… and this is the main reason why, if you want to be a real watch enthusiast, you need to know your chronograph basics. 

The story we want to highlight today is part of something we’re actually quite proud to have here, at MONOCHROME: our “Technical Perspective” series, where we try to explain in the clearest, most comprehensible way how complications and watch mechanisms work. And yes, we’ll look back at some more of these technical articles in the near future. Being a true watch enthusiast also means knowing how exactly a watch works. And today, we start with one of our favourite types of movement, the all-time classic chronograph… Well, in fact, multiple types of movements, as you’ll see in the great episode of “A Technical Perspective” where we go over history, mechanics and functions…

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