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Question: What is a complication? I have heard the term used with reference to watches, what exactly is it?
Answer: A complication is simply a feature of a watch. Time and Date are complications but so standard they are rarely referred to as such. A stop watch feature on a watch would be another complication. The most common complication is the Date feature and the next most common feature is a chronograph or stop watch function. A Chronograph is a watch with one or more stop watch features which do not interfere with the normal time keeping function of a watch.
Sometimes people confuse the terms Chronograph and Chronometer.
A Chronometer is a very accurate Mechanical watch (certified by some official testing agency such as the Swiss Official Chronometer Control (C.O.S.C.).) and a Chronograph is a watch with multiple features and usually multiple winding type stems. Chronometers often have Chronograph complications, but do not confuse the two words...Most Rolex watches are Chronometers, and many have mutliple complications including Chronographs. Was this complicated? Well, have fun with your watch, and
let us keep your time in a
nice winder or
watchcase.
Most fake watches have non-working Complications, in which case they are not infact complications, just fancy non working buttons.
What is a watch complication? If a watch is responsible not only for telling you the time, but also measures elapsed time, indicates the leap year, warns you about an important meeting, it means it is supplied with some additional functions, or complications.
http://www.watchreport.net/index.php?page=articles&catid=8&id=19 Complications: Complications are additional features or mechnical additions to a watch over the standard time and date. For example, a chronograph is a common complication, as well as a day/date or big date. More exclusive complications include minute repeater, tourbillon and retrograde hands.
http://www.breitlingsource.com/watch_term_glossary.shtml#c Donald Geib
President
www.watchcases.com LLC.
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