Hands-On: The Handsome And Charmingly Busy Tissot Telemeter 1938
Those who are interested in timing things down to the second – race car drivers, twister chasers, hard-boiled egg obsessives – are spoilt for choice with this watch. You have your standard central hours and minutes, a 60-second chronograph hand, as well as a railroad-style 30-minute counter at three and a 60-second counter at nine. You may be saying to yourself – that doesn’t sound “busy” Nora, that sounds like a chronograph. Okay yes, here’s where the scales come in. There’s a center tachymeter scale (for timing speed over a known distance, a minutes scale with the blue central minute hand. And on the edge is a telemeter scale, which times the distance between something you see first and then hear (like lightning and thunder).