Was over 30 years ago, when I was regatta sailing. And a quartz Casio did the job perfectly well. Mechanical chronographs were never primarily about the function for me and much more about the looks. Have I activated them more often for the feel of...
A lot of the Cal13-20 pieces have the pushers close to the lugs as the case size and movement size are much more closely aligned than is common nowadays 😊 Here mine as a comparison 👍🏻