subject: Compare Chronograph Watches [print this page] Watches, its the craze of today, the fashion of today. We can find different type of watches and one of the famous types is chronograph watches. Watches with timepiece as well as stop watches are called chronograph watches. These are not the watches of today, we can find these chronograph watches from 1800th century and they were quit famous on these days also. Chronograph watches are further of two types that are digital and analogue-digital chronographs. These are future sub-divided into kinetic and automatic chronographs.
Starting with digital chronograph, they have digital stopwatch and digital timepiece. And the one with analogue timepiece with a digital stop watch functions are the analogue-digital watches. The further sub division into kinetic and automatic chronographs are on the basis that how the watch is powered. Seiko is one of the companies developed in late 60s having kinetic movement.
Chronograph watches does not end with having a timepiece and stopwatches, nowadays we can find many other features inside a chronograph watch. We can find watch watches with clear crystals specially one with the sapphire crystals, watches with alarm clocks, tachymeter, power saving watches etc. nowadays most of the watches are having stripes of stainless steel. We can also see a double chronograph watch that is one having two stop watches. These are generally called as split chronographs.
While buying a chronograph watch we should first see what we demands for. We can find different and new types of chronograph watches. The one with only one button for all functions are called fly back chronograph watches. We should see the cost of all the watches and check their features before buying it. Different chronographs have different functions. For example marine chronograph, this can be helpful in navigation purposes these navigation watches were developed in early 1800th century. So we should even go for a search on web for watches so as to get the best in least price.
