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Misleading Advertising And Honesty Among Product Vendors In Common Place Today.  Consumers Must Always Beware.  By Working With A Reputable Established Dealer Or Professional Outfitting Shop, One Can make More Informed Personal Outfitting Decisions And Purchases.

The Name Given To A Product, Has No Bearing On The Products Capability.  Terms And Claims Used In Product Advertising Are Designed To Get The Product Sold.  It Appears To Be A General-Consumer's Human Nature To Always Assume More Than What Is Actual.  People read Into Product Names And Advertising Hype, More That What Is Actual.  A Simple Product Name With The Word "Waterproof" Can Mean So Many Different Things To Many Different People!  A Product Name Containing This Word, Does Not State Its Submersible In Water!  The Name Gives No Indication Of The Products Capability!

For This Reason, We Offer Some General Watch Product Guidance Below.  This Information Was Provided By Various Watch Technology Developers Who We Provide With Our Professional Consumer Outfitting And Distribution Services.

Waterproof / Water Resistant

Q) What does "Waterproof" "Water Resistant" on my watch mean?

A) The term waterproof was ruled out by the U.S. Federal government and is no longer expectable. Current watches for the U.S. Market, must specify a rated depth. For example, "water resistant to 100m" (that could also read 333 ft, 10atm); a common ratting seen.

Water Resistance: The ability of a watch to prevent water entering the case.  Expressed in meters, on the caseback, the degree of water resistance indicates the kind of activities in which one may reasonably engage while wearing the watch.  Remember, water-resistance is resistance to pressure; activities around water present their own water pressure and not that of water depth alone. An example activity would be water skiing, where pressures on the watch would be created by a water skier hitting the water during a fall in the water, creating high water pressures on the watch and the skier.

Example: Remember that water pressure is created by the weight of water (water depth) plus the added pressure on the watch created by the activity at hand! A shower presents water pressure from the showerhead, washing your hands creates pressures, SCUBA diving is not only depth but also pressures created when a diver moves arms and moves through the water. Pressures add up quickly to much higher than just the pressure created by the water weight at depth.  Water is not compressible, therefore any force added to water must be added to the weight of water.  Taking all this data and adding it up will indicate the actual water-resistance level required for any watch near water during a specific activity.

• 3 bar water-resistance means the watch can stand up to splashing.

• 5 bar water-resistance indicates it is suitable for a shower, swimming and surface water sports.

• 10 bar water-resistance indicates it is suitable for water-skiing, snorkeling.

• 50 bar water-resistance

• 100 Bar water-resistance - SCUBA Diving

• 150 bar water-resistance - Diving

Titanium Watch

Q) Why Titanium?

A) Titanium is twice as strong as steel, but only 40% of the weight by volume.  Titanium is 100% non-allergenic, and very corrosion resistant, making it a wonder steel!  Titanium is a high-technology metal alloy developed for the space industry and was extremely expensive to produced.   As non-space manufacturers embraced the new metal in their product designs and manufacturing, the volume of use is bring down the price to produce raw Titanium.  With the price for raw Titanium becoming affordable for applications other than space, it is now an option for designers and engineers in consumer markets like camping gear, Camp cooking pots and pans, kitchen knives, SCUBA gear, bicycles, and watches.  A Titanium watch part will be lighter, stronger and have higher durability and reliability.

Jewel Movements

Q) What is the purpose of jewels in watches?

A)  Jewels or synthetic rubies are found in some watches.  They protect the wheels and plates inside the watch, from excess wear, and reduce friction.

Shock Resistant

Q) What does "shock resistant" mean?

A)  As defined by the US Government Regulatory Agency, shock resistant means, a watch can withstand the impact of being dropped from 3ft onto a wood floor.

Chronograph

Chronometer

Q) Chronograph or a Chronometer?

A) The most confusing terms in watches is chronograph and chronometer.  They are different, however, a chronograph can be a chronometer!

• CHRONOGRAPH is simply another name for the stop watch function.

• CHRONOMETER is a watch that has been tested and certified by a laboratory in Switzerland to keep time for 360 hours in five positions, with sudden temperature changes, in accordance with standards.

Tachymeter

Q) What is a Tachymeter scale and how does it work?

A) A tachymeter scale is used to computer speed results; the primary purpose is to compute speed of an object.  The tachymeter scale is a logarithmic scale, which computes the function: Tachymeter Dial = 3600 / Elapsed Time in Seconds

The scale is valid for all elapsed times from 7.2 seconds to 60 seconds. If the duration of the event is outside this range, then the answer on the dial is invalid.

How To Use A Tachymeter

Learning By Example - Here Is A Common Example Using A Tachymeter

Measure the average speed a racecar is traveling.

Start the chronograph function when the car passes the starting line, and stop the function after the car travels exactly one mile; noting esitionof the chronograph hand.In this example, the hand points to the 4 hour position (20 seconds elapsed).  Now, looking beyond the 4 hour position to the Tachymeter dial face, reveals the number 180.  The tachymeter indicates a computed speed of 180 MPH.

 

Example 2)  Observing a slow moving object.

Since recorded time lapse must be between 7.2 and 60 seconds, the distance to travel for the recorded time must be short..

Example:  It took 36 seconds for a sailboat to travel 1/10 a nautical mile.  Reading the tachymeter dial, 100 knots is indicated.  However, since 1/10 of a nautical mile was traveled, the actual answer is 1/10 of 100, equals 10 knots.

Example 3) Observing a very fast moving object

Example: A plane travels 10 kilometers, in 10 seconds.  The tachymeter dial points to 360. Therefore, the answer is computed to 10 X 360; equals 3600 km/hour.

Other Uses For A Tachymeter Dial

A tachymeter can be used to measure gas consumption.

Example:  It took 50 seconds to burn up 1 gallon of gasoline.  Reading the tachymeter scale at the moment 1 gallon was consumed, reveals the number 72. This computes to 72 gallons of fuel per hour is being consumed.

With more experience using this easy tool, a user will quickly realize the usefulness of a tachymeter.

Most Accurate Watch

Q) What Is The Most Accurate Watch?

A) A Radio Controlled Watch In The U.S. Or A Global GPS-Satellite Synchronized Watch.

First Introduced In 1990 By German Watchmaker Junghans, That Receives A Daily Signal From WWV Radio Transmitter In Fort Collins, CO, Service Of NIST In Boulder.  Radio Controlled Watches Receive A Time Signal Driven By A Nuclear Clock.

First Secretly Introduced By The U.S. DOT, The Large Constellation Of GPS Satellites That Continually Circle The Entire Earth, Transmit A Time Signal Driven By The International World Nuclear Clock.  The Suunto X9 And X9i We Provide, Can Be Set To Receive And Synchronize To Any Overhead GPS-Satellite And The World Nuclear Time Clock.  This By Far Is The more Reliable And Desired method For personal Accurate Time Anywhere on Earth!  We Make This Watch Available Worldwide And The Satellite Time Service, Plus The GPS Global Positioning Service, Comes Free In Any Country!