That Baffling Bezel

Have you purchased a watch with a striking and complicated working bezel, just to have a friend stump you with the question, “How does it work?” Never again my friends! Lets review some standard bezel operations. The famous Uni-Directional Bezel is the most popular and is standard on most dive watches. Simply turn the pointer to the minute hand and count down time, piece of cake, it only goes in one direction for safety (you would surface early rather than risk the bends, or worse, on a dive). Tach or tachymeter bezels measure the rate of speed of an object, units start at 500 and go clockwise to 60. Using a mile marker, as a scenario, start your chrono, when you reach the next marker, stop the function. Look to your bezel for a number that will calculate your miles per hour/kilos etc. Pulsometer chronos can monitor pulse rates for a doctor by a bezel reference. The bezel can be a great tool and it is rarely used by most customer’s, push your sales people to get information on the most complicated pieces and have them teach you about the product. As for the Breitling Navitimer/slide rule style bezels keep the instructions near by for reference untill you can master all the tricks. CTWG

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