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Foudroyant is a French word meaning ‘striking as with lightning’, and a foudroyant jumping seconds hand is one that makes one rotation every second around the face of a watch to indicate the
fractions of a second
Richard Habring's work is amazing. However, others are guilty of passing off the foudroyante mechanism as a
fancifully 'high accuracy' chronograph. However this requires somewhat of a stretch of the imagination and a calibration curve to achieve. Rapwatch
Originally designed to allow a chronograph to measure smaller increments than a second.
This complication traditionally allows a chronograph to measure 1/8th or 1/6th of a second depending upon the balance vbh rate. A 28,800 or 21,600vph would determine whether or not it was 1/8th sec. or 1/6th sec. The Habrings rather like the movement of t...