Patek Philippe

chintu
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Patek thus ignores the importance of the central seconds hand in time-keeping.

I did not say that the watch will become inaccurate. I agree that even when the chrono functions are engaged , the time-keeping minutes hand will continue to keep its accurate time, however the seconds hand when reset from chrono-seconds to timekeeping-seconds, will start all over from zero. Thus in my example the actual seconds elapsed in real time and the apparent seconds read-off the timekeeping seconds hand will be incorrect. In my example the real seconds elapsed is 25 seconds but because of the timekeeping seconds hand restarting from zero, the wearer will now read the seconds lapsed as zero when it should actually resume at 25 seconds. Thus if the time  is 10:10:25 in reality, the reset of chrono-seconds to once again become the time keeping seconds will cause the time to now show 10:10:00. This is not welcome at all. Perhaps this is the very reason that no one tries to mix up the chrono-seconds counter with timekeeping-seconds counter ( normal seconds hand).

regds/narsi