The Breitling Watch Source Forums

I absolutely have to have either a bezel or a chronograph! A watch without either just bugs me when a situation arises where I'd like to measure the time of some event.

I use mine to time how long it will take for people to attack me on this forum!

Thinking of getting a split second chrono as it seems to be so fast!

I use mine all the time, for all sorts of things (some useful, some quite silly). I find that I use it to time certain things, simply because I can.

I do have a couple of questions though.

Does the use of the chronograph cause a watch to "wind down" faster? So for example, if you wind a watch that has a 42 hour reserve, then turn on the chronograph and leave it running, will that watch now only go for 21 hours (for example)?

There have been several other threads that have talked about how sitting dormant in a case for a couple of years can have a negative affect a mechanical watch. Similarly, if you never use the chronograph function, does it have the same negative affect?

If you don't run a chronograph then it will cause the oils on those wheels to break down over time - I always make sure that I run a chrono for about 24 hours a month or so at the least.