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Hi. New to Breitling/forum and love it . Can any one answer why the chronograph(on Chronomat) works different to my other watches? Is it because of the Quartz/mechanical difference? I am not in depth in auto watches and was just wondering how 1) There is a heavy "click" when pushing of the pushers to Start and reset it. Is it any thing to do with point 3? 2) Thankfully I do not have to, but can the chronograph hands be rest to zero, as in Quartz, if the are not hitting the zero position correctly when reset to zero? If you know what I mean!!! 3) The fact that the movements of the hands look to be "instant" compared to that of my other Quartz watches, as in the hands reset "instant" and are not visible to the eye. Why and how?

I hope this is clear.

Thanks for any help for this and previous posts.

Regards from Ireland.

Breanach78

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I think that's a quartz/mechanical thing. Mechanical chronographs I've used require significantly more effort to depress the pushers when compared to quartz. Also, as you note, the hands return instantly when reset, instead of quickly tranversing the dial in a clockwise fashion, as they do on the quartz watches I've used.

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To answer the specific questions.....

1) In a mechanical watch you are physically moving levers and pinions around inside the movement and that takes physical effort.

2) No

3) The reset is another mechanical function - the parts of the movement to the stopped location is released causing the hands to immediately return to their 'at rest' location (0). They generally take the shortest path to 0, so over 30 seconfs the second hand will advance, less than 30 seconds and it will regress.

Once again thanks Roff. for your informative replies.

Breanach78.

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