Horological Meandering

Any thoughts about this watch? "The Carrera Calibre 360 chronograph - the world's most accurate mechanical chronograph beating at 360,000 vibrations/hour - was selected over 10 other nominees drawn from the world's most prestigious watch making workshops ...  

Hi Bill, I mean, I guess it is interesting on some level, but it's really just a 100 bps stop watch on top of an ETA autoamtic movement. To me, that means it's not really even a chronograph in some sense (the mechanisms are entirely independent) and at th... 

Panerai is coming out with something that has not being available for many years. The illustrious "Foudroyant" . It is such a beautiful sight to see the seconds spinning at 1/8 of the second. I have one on order and I am very excited about it. The tag was... 

Hi Bill, Your post didn't make it seem as if you owned the Carrera 360 (do you?), and certainly if it did I would've couched my skepticism about its horological pedigree in more diplomatic language. :) I'm sure the Pannie Foudroyante is perfectly lovely. ... 

Couch potato that I am, I would love for someone with real knowledge to exploon (yes, exploon)* this to me. If the stop-watch mechanism is entirely independent of the base calibre, doesn't that mean it needs its own mainspring, drive-train, escapement and... 

. . . be an interesting and desirable item, John? Decimal timing makes calculating so much tidier . . . . cordially, Art