what is chronograph?

Answer 1

A chronograph is a timepiece, or watch, with both timekeeping and stopwatch functions. Chronographs were produced as early as the 18th century, but they did not become popular until the 1820s.

(Analog chronographs show both time and stopwatch functions, with analog hands. Typically, the center hand will be used for stopwatch functions, while subdials may indicate "permanent" seconds, stopwatch minutes and hours, and in some quartz chronographs tenths or hundredths of a second.

Digital chronographs use a digital display for both timekeeping and stopwatch functions, either with separate displays or by switching modes on a single display.

Analog-digital chronographs have a standard analog watch with permanent center seconds, and a separate digital display that usually operates independently of the analog section. A flyback will reset to zero and then continue to run when the reset button is pushed while the stopwatch is running, whereas most mechanical chronographs will reset to 0 only when the stopwatch is stopped.

A bullhead is a wristwatch chronograph with the movement rotated 90 degrees, placing the crown and buttons at the top of the watch rather than the traditional side. These are rarely encountered.)

Answer 2

A chronograph is a piece of equipment that can be used to measure something. I say something because you can get a chronograph to measure different units; ie. time in seconds, minutes, hours even months. It can also be used to count ie. how many of something is made. The original ones are well before any of this digital malarky, none of this Quartz stuff around then. None of these neat little Timex pieces that fit on your wrist and can control almost all of the world.......Well, they can turn your TV channel over!!!

The next one out will probably be the new, "Timex Flux-capacitor" - tell the time in a million dimensions. Ha! I'm just being silly now.

But, anyway back to the question ,a chronograph is piece of equipment used to measure a unit in time. And thats the important bit to remember, (a unit in time) because you can design and make them to measure any unit of time you want.

Answer 3

A chronograph measures a unit of time i.e. a stopwatch
compare with
A chronometer indicates the time i.e. a clock or watch

Answer 4

a chronograph is a watch that has time measuring functions like a stopwatch, countdown timer, lap timer, etc. it can be analog or digital.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronograph

Answer 6

Timepiece.

Answer 7

analog watch