Gone are the days when watches purely tell the time. These days you can have the world on your wrist with no end of functions to fit with your lifestyle and make your life easier and more convenient.
Types of watch functions:
There are two types of multifunctional watches. The first group are watches that have their functions built into the watch, the others are smartwatches which connect to an external device such as a phone which work in tandem with the device usually via Bluetooth to offer a range of additional functions. Choosing which what best suits your needs depends on the features that you need weighed up against the watches battery life and its complexity.
Watch functions explained:
There are many features that your watch can offer from a simple date and chronograph, to in-depth sleep analysis, heartrate tracking, moonphase and GPS.
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Date They say that once you've had a date on your watch, you wont be able to live without it. The date is displayed through a window in the dial. |
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Day-Date This is the addition of the day of the week displayed on the dial. |
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Perpetual Calendar Most date features work on a rolling 31 day date wheel. If the month has less than 31 days then the wearer will have to manually change it. A perpetual calendar take into account the days in the month and even correlates with leap years. This can be built into the movement of the watch or be radio controlled. |
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Chronograph This is a common feature on many sportier watches and acts as a stopwatch. The measured time is usually displayed on a smaller sub-dial. The chronograph will not interfere with the time on the watch. |
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Moonphase For lunar lovers, you can have a feature on your watch that shows the earth side sunlit portion of the moon. A celestial watch feature. |
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Sub-Seconds On some watches, the hand that ticks seconds is not attached to the centre of the dial with the other hands but has its own smaller sub-dial. |
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Tachymeter A tachymeter is a scale around the dial on a watch and is used to calculate speed based on time travelled over a fixed distance. |
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