It is a common product denomination and dozens of brands offer one in their catalogue. A regulator is a Swiss replica watches that displays the hours, minutes and seconds from separate points on the dial. Generally, all three hands are anchored at the centre of the watch. Often enough, the seconds’ hand is shifted at 6 o’clock. It is then known as a small second. But hours and minutes go together hand in hand. We’re used to telling one from the other by looking at their respective length… but just remember your childhood and how difficult it was at first. A regulator displays the minutes at the centre of the dial, with the longest hand, because they are the unit that requires a finer degree of legibility. The hours are off-centered, generally at 12 o’clock, opposite the small seconds. But there are exceptions to that geographical distribution.It is a common product denomination and dozens of brands offer one in their catalogue. A regulator is a watch that displays the hours, minutes and seconds from separate points on the dial. Generally, all three hands are anchored at the centre of the cheap replica Rolex watches. Often enough, the seconds’ hand is shifted at 6 o’clock. It is then known as a small second. But hours and minutes go together hand in hand. We’re used to telling one from the other by looking at their respective length… but just remember your childhood and how difficult it was at first. A regulator displays the minutes at the centre of the dial, with the longest hand, because they are the unit that requires a finer degree of legibility. The hours are off-centered, generally at 12 o’clock, opposite the small seconds. But there are exceptions to that geographical distribution.

Chopard L.U.C Regulator.
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Yet, the question remains : why is it called a regulator? What does it regulate? Is this type of display associated with greater accuracy? Better chronometry ? It doesn’t anymore but it used to. As far back as the 1800’s, a regulator was a very accurate clock. One could say a chronometer, but that  wasn’t the term people used at the time. Bearing that name was the prerogative of the best clocks, made by the best clock-makers. But they displayed the time any way they wanted, that had nothing to do with the affair. The relationship between accuracy and display came as a side effect of the industrial revolution. Somewhere in the middle of the 18th century, top Rolex replica watches shifted from being manufactured at home to factories. We call them workshops out of a misplaced sense of nostalgia and prestige, but they were factories in the Dickensian sense of the word. Hundreds of workers assembled and regulated the millions of clocks and fake Rolex watches that came mostly from Switzerland, America, England, France and Germany.

Hamilton Jazzmaster Regulator Auto.
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As always, a large group of people working together require unity, a common ground to settle disputes, a time reference. The middle ages are riddled with hundreds of stories where bosses cheated on the working hours by nudging a minute hand backwards… Only in the case of watchmaking, this reference time didn’t serve only to set the proper working hours and the ensuing wages. Dozens of people regulating watches needed a single accurate time to set them against. And in a large workshop, such a master clock had to be large and unmistakably easy to read by a population that barely had access to reading glasses. This is why these very accurate workshop chronometer clocks were fitted with separate hands for the hour, the minute and the second : to avoid confusion. Nowadays, only the display system of the regulator remains. But ask any long-sighted person : it is quite useful a trick !

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