WatchTime E-Special: Four Top Chronographs

This special tablet reprint contains a quartet of articles reviewing four chronograph watches. In them, our WatchTime testers report on their experiences wearing and using the watches and evaluate them for ease of use, comfort, legibility and looks. The articles also provide the results of the watches’ timing tests, performed on a timing machine and on the wrist. For each watch, the articles give a bullet-point list of “pros” and “cons” summarizing the tester’s findings. All four articles were published in WatchTime magazine and have been reproduced as they originally appeared.

DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN

Omega’s new Seamaster Planet Ocean has been reworked and outfitted with the brand’s in-house chronograph movement. Does it sink or swim? (From the October 2011 issue of WatchTime)

TENTH POWER

Zenith’s marquee model at the 2010 Baselworld watch fair, the El Primero Striking 10th, can measure time to the nearest 1/10 second. WatchTime put this innovative chronograph to the test. (From the August 2010 issue of WatchTime)

BRINE TIME

Can IWC’s new sailing watch, the Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph, survive the perfect storm of a WatchTime test? (From the February 2011 issue of WatchTime)

SAMURAI STOPWATCH

Seiko’s Ananta Automatic Chronograph was inspired by traditional Japanese swords. We find out if this timepiece and its manufacture movement are really cutting-edge. (From the June 2011 issue of WatchTime)