10/18/2026
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What do all those little dials on a chronograph actually do?
AbyssForce’s dial is easy to read once you know it: one sub-dial counts chronograph minutes, one shows the 24-hour time, one shows running seconds, and the outer ring measures speed. It’s a Seiko VK63 meca-quartz dive chronograph with sapphire and a 500m rating, for $199.
Plenty of guys own a chronograph and only ever read the hour and minute hands. The rest of the dial is just decoration to them, three small circles and a ring of numbers they’ve never figured out. Here’s the quick guide. 🔍
Here’s what’s on the AbyssForce dial:
The big hands and the running seconds. The hour and minute hands tell the time. The small running-seconds sub-dial ticks constantly, so you can see the watch is running. The large center seconds hand stays parked at 12 until you start the chronograph.
The chronograph: the center hand plus the 60-minute counter. Press the top pusher and the center seconds hand sweeps around. Each full lap advances the 60-minute counter by one minute, so you can time anything up to an hour. Press the top pusher again to stop, and press the bottom pusher to snap both hands back to zero. That crisp snap comes from the VK63’s mechanical chronograph module.
The 24-hour sub-dial, the date, and the tachymeter. The 24-hour sub-dial tells you whether it’s AM or PM, which is handy after a red-eye flight or a long night shift. The date sits at 6 o’clock. The tachymeter on the outer ring turns the chronograph into a speed calculator: time one mile and read your speed off the scale.
Once you know the layout, every element on the dial earns its place, and it’s all protected by anti-reflective sapphire and backed by a 500m rating with screw-down pushers. The case is 48mm, solid 316L steel, and 270g, best on wrists 7 inches and up.
It comes in blue, white, or grey, with a 12-month warranty, 30-day returns, and free tracked shipping over $100.
Know your dial. Use your dial. ⏱️
👉 Shop AbyssForce and put every sub-dial to work.