CHRONOMETER: MORE THAN JUST A WORD

It's an officially certified self winding chronometer. When you see a watch with such a statement attached, unless you have spent some time studying watches then you probably don't understand what the statement is trying to say about the nature of a watch. First of all, you have to understand that not just any watch can be given the name chronometer. A chronometer watch has to be tried and tested and seen to meet certain standards of precision. The COSC is the body responsible for issuing this particular certification in Switzerland, the home of the world’s most luxurious, most respected and most recognized names in watch making. Their definition of a chronometer is “a high precision watch capable of displaying the seconds and housing a movement that has been tested over several days, in different positions, and at different temperatures, by an official, neutral body”. The neutral body in this case being the COSC. After passing the COSC's test, the watches are identified by serial numbers specific to a particular watch. Almost anyone who makes a watch can decide to label it a chronometer but only a certain kind of watch is fit to be given such a label, a watch such as the Rolex Day-Date which is not only a chronometer but the first wristwatch on record that had also the day and the date functions. The next best thing to a watch such as the Rolex replica Day-Date would probably be a Rolex Day-Date replica watch, a watch that the makers made to emulate the legendary Rolex Day-Date. So don't go for a watch that just anybody chose to label a chronometer but one that was universally accepted to be one or the next best thing, the Rolex Day-Date watch replica.

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