Talk:Chronograph

Velocity measuring instrument

 * a chronograph is a thing that you use in paintball by putting the tip of your gun on it and shooting your gun and it tell you how many feet per second your gun is shooting at. (this previously unsigned comment -- 17:50, 4 March 2006 65.33.75.169)
 * To more clearly state the previous comment, where is the article for the chronograph commonly used for measuring the time it takes for a projectile to pass between two points, ie measure the velocity? Qleem 08:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * covers it pretty well, and it's public domain, so somebody could start an article from it pretty quickly. --Interiot 16:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I added a link (since I needed one elsewhere, in proof test) Paul Koning 21:12, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Chronograph wrist watches
This sentence is definitely wrong: "The Breitling Navitimer is the world's oldest chronograph wrist watch (first produced in 1952).[2]" I know for a fact that the german Luftwaffe used chronograph wrist watches made by the Hanhart company. These existed in the years preceding WW2 as well, and was known as the fliegerchronograph. I will therefore delete the above-mentioned sentence. SWA (talk) 13:27, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


 * There's no need to rush to delete material. If it's not quite correct, just fix it.  The next reader might want to know why Breitling is not mentioned. Bushcutter (talk) 00:46, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

This article is spam
"Chronograph" is a term with a very wide range of meanings, and there are probably dozens of kinds of chronographs, few of which are watches. The use of the term "chronograph" to refer to watches seems to be relatively recent (1880s?), restricted to watches with specialized "complications" for timing events, and perhaps rather inflated: there is no obvious meaningful distinction between "watch", "chronograph" or "chronometer" in advertising except that the last two sound more sophisticated. I'd say "chronograph" in reference to watches is marketingspeak, mostly, even if it's been marketingspeak for over a century. The 1911 Encyclopedia linked at "gun chronograph" has a lot of interesting, valuable, and significant history about chronograph techniques, covering chronographs not only for guns but also for physiological purposes. Chronographs have also been used in calibrating musical instruments like pianos. This article has exactly one live external reference -- to a vendor of watches. So: this article is spam. It should be completely rewritten, with "chronograph" in the sense now covered relegated to a separate, subsidiary article of some kind, or maybe simply redirected to the article about watches. Yakushima (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I came to this article because i wanted to know what "Chronograph" on my watch means. I clearlygot my answer. Whats the problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.19.158.31 (talk) 07:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The stopwatch was invented by Samuel Watson in 1695. Chronograph originally meant a stopwatch with a little pen which marked the time interval.  Without that little pen, "chronograph"  is an overpriced word for an overpriced stopwatch; nothing more.  Yes this article is largely spam for those who sell overpriced stopwatches.    Randall Bart    Talk   16:48, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Types
Is it proper to say "many" when there are only two types listed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.167.219 (talk) 09:01, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Having looked everywhere for a defination of tachometer and telemeter chronograph i added a simple defination to spare others an unnecessary search.77.100.108.162 (talk) 23:31, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Update on History of Chronograph?
It seems it would in fact be Louis Moinet who invented and built the first chronograph in 1815 (achieved in 1816).

Couple of sources:

http://www.argusdesmontres.com/magazine/le-pere-du-chronographe-n-est-pas-suisse-mais-francais-21-03-2013-1643814_830.php (FR)

http://www.monochrome.nl/louis-moinet-unveils-the-worlds-first-chronograph-dating-back-to-1816/ (EN)

Please modify accordingly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheloniousMiles (talk • contribs) 00:32, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Automatic Chronograph
Under History we have this: "The automatic chronograph was invented in 1969 by..." and there's a section dedicated to Automatic Chronograph. No where in this article is there a definition of the term. As a layman, I have no clue what an automatic chronograph is - let alone how the original, presumably manual? type would differ. I think this article would benefit greatly from an expert's definition of an automatic chronograph. Is it just referring to an automatic movement? If so, I suppose a link to Automatic watch would suffice...but I don't like to make assumptions. Sudopeople (talk) 16:52, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

I am not an expert but I believe that automatic chronographs are powered by a capacitor or rechargeable battery (which doesn't need to be replaced). The same power source powers timekeeping. The power source is charged by piezoelectric quartz witch derives energy from the wearers movements. Someone should probably verify this.Circuitboardsushi (talk) 04:38, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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