![]() Other considerations include aesthetics and other attributes, all based on my experience in watch collecting over the last 15 years. You will also note that I’ve included types with both column-wheel and lever mechanisms. My personal Top 10 contains in-house manufactured movements as well as mass-produced movements from manufacturers such as Lemania. The book dates from 1993 and offers good – albeit very technical – descriptions of the various chronograph movements out there. Although it does not include the latest chronograph movements, it is still a useful article covering many important aspects of chronographs.Īnother great read that I can recommend if you want to learn more about chronograph movements is the book Chronograph Wristwatches – To Stop Time, written by Gerd-Rüdiger Lang (founder and former CEO of Chronoswiss) and Reinhard Meis. ![]() One of my late, watch-loving friends had a special appreciation for chronographs and even ended all his e-mails with, “Chronographs, like most finer things in life, only improve with time.” If you want to know more about chronograph movements, and certain specific calibers, from a collector’s point of view, I recommend you read the interview I did with him several years ago ( click here). ![]() So, to make it up for some of you fellow watch nerds out there, here I focus specifically on chronograph movements rather than watches. However, I do love the Zenith El Primero movement, and think that its reputation as a great chronograph caliber is well-earned. Quite simply, it didn’t make my personal Top 5. Some of you readers wondered why Zenith wasn’t in there. A while back, I wrote an article on my top 5 iconic chronograph watches.
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