Wristwatch with stopwatch

Stopwatch

— a traditional stopwatch is a function that allows you to measure time intervals with an accuracy of seconds, or even tenths / hundredths of a second.

In modern watches, you can find two types of stopwatches. The first is the solutions used in models with displays (in other words, in watches with electronic and combined dials). In such devices, the countdown of seconds is displayed on the screen and is accurate to a tenth or even a hundredth of a second; also, such stopwatches can have various additional functions: counting intermediate results for control points or laps, saving the results of the last measurement, etc.

The second type of stopwatch found in the arrow dials is the arrow on the main axis, which can be started and stopped at the request of the user. This is a rather rare option — for the reason that most often such an arrow is used in combination with additional scales and is no longer a stopwatch, but a chronograph (see below). And in watches where there are no chronograph scales, a rather unusual format for the operation of such a hand can be provided: in normal mode, it works like a standard second, and when the watch is switched to stopwatch mode, it moves to zero and stops before the countdown begins

Also note that for some watches, both a stopwatch and a chronograph may be indicated in the list of functions. Basically, these are models with combined dials, where the first function is implemented through the display, the second through the arrows.