You will notice on the Watch Superstar site that there are both designer watches and chronographs available.  Some may never have heard of a chronograph and others may just be confused as to how one differs from a normal watch.  This handy guide should set you straight.

A chronograph is a timepiece that has both timekeeping and stopwatch functions.  The term chronograph is often confused with the term chronometer which in some cases describes a watch that has received some kind of precision certificate.  Chronographs come in the following forms:

• Analogue chronograph - these display both time and stopwatch functions using their analogue hands.  Usually the centre hand will be used for the stopwatch function with  subdials indicating seconds, tenth seconds, etc.
• Digital chronograph - predictably, this uses a digital readout for both timekeeping and stopwatch functions.  This will either use 2 separate displays, or one display whose mode can be selected.
• Analogue/Digital chronograph - this chronograph consists of a standard analogue watch with a smaller inbuild digital display being used for the stopwatch function.
• Double chronograph -this is a watch that has not one but two stopwatch mechanisms so that it can estimate separate events of different durations.
• Flyback chronograph - this is often confused with a double chronograph.  This is a watch that has a single button to stop, reset and restart the chronograph function of the watch.

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