Chronographs are nothing new. In fact, this super-accurate piece of precision engineering was invented back in 1816 by French watch-maker Louis Moinet for working together with astrological equipment, while it was first marketed as a wearable chronograph in 1821 by Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec.
His boss, King Louis XVIII, commissioned him to create a timepiece the monarch could use to record the lap time of his horse races. And it wasn’t long before this new technology was refined further and mass-produced for use by the military to time artillery strikes and sportspeople to record personal bests.
