The Precisionist Chronograph 98B315 is built like a brick, with a 46.5mm diameter and an even larger lug to lug measurement of 54.6mm. If you’re looking for a small, classy watch, look elsewhere. Once you stop the chronograph, the hand will snap to the appropriate position. When the chronograph is running, this subdial remains fixed at 0. The bottom subdial marks off thousandths of a second. The 9 o’clock subdial counts minutes, while the 3 o’clock subdial counts up to 12 hours. A pair of long and short hands track tenths and hundredths respectively. The top subdial is designed to count tenths and hundredths of a second, with two sets of indices for both of them. This watch has four separate subdials, located at the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o’clock positions. At the outermost edge, a red and white tachymeter dial offers you yet another function. The second hand is slender and red, and doubles as a stopwatch hand. The hour and minute hands consist of wide steel frames, which are see-through towards the center and have small lume arrows at the tips. The indexes themselves are located at the 12 hour marks, with white lume hashes for night visibility. The Precisionist Chronograph’s dial is a textured black towards the center, with a brushed chrome ring that contains the indexes. At that level of accuracy, this is a true chronograph, not a mere wristwatch. It’s accurate to within +/- 10 seconds per year. In addition, the Precisionist movement is true to its name. Since the hands are always in motion, there’s nothing for them to “line up” with. One benefit of this smooth motion is that you won’t have to worry about the second and minute hands not lining up exactly, which happens all too frequently with quartz movements. Instead, the Precisionist’s hands transit the dial smoothly, with a sweeping second hand that’s constantly in motion. This can be a bad thing if you like to see and hear audible ticking. While this is an apples to oranges comparison, the long and short of it is that the Precisionist is extremely smooth ticking. The most attractive feature of the entire Precisionist Chronograph line is the Precisionist movement, which utilizes a quartz crystal with a blazing fast 262kHz vibrational frequency.īy comparison, a 22,000 BPM mechanical movement is ticking at an equivalent of 22kHz. One of those, which I’ve had the pleasure to review, is the 98B315. And while Bulova’s Precisionist Chronograph line has been around since 2010, it seems like they’re constantly releasing different versions. They’ve been around for over 100 years, and even though they’re now owned by Citizen, they continue to produce quality, American-made watches.
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In any case, we break down the Precisionist’s full features above.For fans of mid-range collectible watches, Bulova is one of those brands that needs no introduction. Our only concern at that depth is the mineral glass crystal, but then again, timing submarine races isn’t usually high on our lists. In normal mode it sweeps continuously rather than jumping once a second in chronograph mode, it reverts to jumping second to second while the chronograph tenths and hundredths hands on the sub-dial at twelve o’clock whirl like helicopter blades.Ī 46-millimeter diameter and 18 millimeters of thickness impart a solid, hefty, tough look to the Precisionist, backed up by a water resistance to 300 meters thanks to a screw-down crown. The sweep seconds hand is perhaps our favorite part of the chronograph. The Precisionist’s decreased variation due to temperature is a neat side benefit, and especially useful to Antarctic scientists measuring water freezing rates (we presume). If that deviance affects your schedule, you have far larger needs than a razor-sharp timepiece.
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This is what enables its extreme precision and accuracy: plus or minus ten seconds a year, and, as we said, timing up to a twelve hour period down to the thousandth of a second. It features a unique three-prong quartz crystal (the crystals in most quartz movements have only two prongs) that vibrates at 262.144kHz - yep, 262,144 times per second - which is eight times the frequency of traditional quartz watches.
More specifically, the Precisionist is one of the most accurate watches that doesn’t receive regular timing signals from a remote atomic clock.
For timing grocery runs down to a thousandth of a second, the Bulova Precisionist Chronograph ($799) is one of the most impressive timepieces out there.
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