Before electronic timers, referees, coaches and lab technicians carried mechanical pocket stopwatches: a single sweep hand for seconds, a small dial counting minutes and a crown you pressed to start, stop and reset. This face recreates one in brass, with a faintly aged dial and fine ticks around the edge.
In stopwatch mode the long hand sweeps seconds while the upper sub-dial counts up to 30 minutes and the lower one shows tenths of a second. In clock mode it becomes a pocket watch showing the time, with the weekday below.
Where it's useful
- A nostalgic stopwatch for a sports club or history page
- A pocket-watch clock for a themed event or exhibit
- A decorative timer on a second screen
- Teaching how stopwatches used to work
Three ways to use it
- Clock — the time of day in your time zone or any city, in 12- or 24-hour form.
- Stopwatch — counts up with laps; press Lap while it runs.
- Countdown — counts down from any time you set, sounds at zero, then counts overtime.
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Questions
How does a mechanical stopwatch work?
A spring drives the hands; pressing the crown starts the sweep hand, a second press stops it and a third resets it. The small dial counts the minutes.
Does this one have a start button on the watch?
Use the Start and Stop buttons under the face. The crown is part of the artwork.
How accurate is it?
It uses the same precise timer as the main stopwatch, drawn as a hand.