Anyone use their chronograph facility on their analogue?

[ShadownINja]

While I like my new Astroavia, I can't help thinking that it's a tad pointless... well, unless I have a magnifying glass to hand. I mean, I timed something. A brief glance saw "about 20 minutes"; if I wanted to know the precise minutes and seconds, I'd have to use a magnifying glass and spend time counting the bars.

[carter711]

I only use mine to impress my young nieces and nephews, for actual timing purposes it's pretty useless.

[olic]

I used mine on my Speedie date once because i wondered how it measured past 30mins on the dials, havent touched it since.
Also read up on how to use the tacymeter hmm usefull!

Looks nice though!

[andy tims]

I use mine when watching motorsport events.

Never use it at track days - oh no.

[Dominic H]

Use mine for cooking (well, heating up to be honest), as I haven't worked out the timer on the Mrs' new double oven.

I will admit to the following chrono-geekery.

On my IWC Portuguese 3714, I used to have the chrono running in synchro with the second hand of the watch, for no other reason than it looks nice.
Even worse, on my IWC Doppel Chrono rattrapante 3717 I have the split second stopped at 26 seconds and the chrono second hand stopped at 34 seconds, again because it looks nice.

Edited by Dominic H on Monday 5th January 18:09

[lowdrag]

As a photographer and journalist based at Le Mans, I use it a lot for racing wherever I am. It's an IWC Spitfire and pretty easy to read too. Sometimes I even amuse myself by seeing just how long it takes for the lights to change and surprise surprise, it isn't one hour as sometimes it seems!

Edited by lowdrag on Monday 5th January 14:39

[ShadownINja]

olic said:

Looks nice though!

That's it, isn't it. It looks nice. I think I'd prefer a GMT/UTC function on my next watch. (Can double up as a quick n easy compass when you can see the sun.)

[X-Box]

A big NO.

[toohuge]

I hardly use mine at all, apart from to start it and then reset it just to watch the second hand sweep round. Yes im sad

[uriel]

I use mine all the time. I use it for cooking as mentioned, but also I work at home on weekends and have completely flexible hours, just have to get 7 hours in each day. So when I start working I set it off and if I want to stop to go to the shops, or to make something to eat or anything like that, I'll just stop it and start again when I resume working. Allows me to see when I've done my time, rather than trying to keep track with mental arithmetic.

[ShadownINja]

toohuge said:

I hardly use mine at all, apart from to start it and then reset it just to watch the second hand sweep round. Yes im sad

It is mesmerising. The other hands don't do it, though.

[ShadownINja]

uriel said:

I use mine all the time. I use it for cooking as mentioned, but also I work at home on weekends and have completely flexible hours, just have to get 7 hours in each day. So when I start working I set it off and if I want to stop to go to the shops, or to make something to eat or anything like that, I'll just stop it and start again when I resume working. Allows me to see when I've done my time, rather than trying to keep track with mental arithmetic.

Ah, I can see it can be useful for measuring hours. Just for minutes, it's so close together, it's hard to determine anything more than "about 20 minutes".

[Martin Keene]

I used to use it when I ws a production engineer with direct involvement with the shop floor, not anymore, well, apart from as a toy.

[The Leaper]

I have a Porsche Design PO11, and yes, I do use the sub dials, mostly for personal timing at motorsport events eg Le Mans, and also when cooking! It's amazing to read on this thread about PHers doing both domestic and men things at the same time! I think if I said to my OH "Please can I go out and buy that Omega Speedy moon watch I've always wanted so I can accurately time tonight's spag bol" I'd get a resounding "NO".

I know it's really sad to say so, but I have sometimes used the bezel on my Seamaster to time cooking items too (fish, of course!)

R.

[ShadownINja]

Y'see, now that you mention the bezel, I think it makes more sense as a timing device because you can either use it to measure hours, minutes or seconds and it's just as accurate as the tiny dials for any given timeframe but easier to see. Think I've decided which watch to get next.