Tachymetric scale -- do you ever use it?

[Strange]

For those who own watches with a tachymetric scale A) do you ever use the tach, and B) if so, what for?

I'm curious how useful people find this feature.

[mlcor]

Nope.

[rodia77]

Nope.

[litlmn]

Never have.

[tribe125]

I don’t have a watch that has one at the moment - but nope, never did.

[Raza]

I learned how to use it in high school, used it a few times, and now have long since forgotten what to do with it.

[Strange]

...all of which leads me to wonder why watchmakers bother to include the tachymetric scale as a 'feature'. I suppose to some it looks cool but, unlike the timing bezel, just isn't that useful.

[tempocalypse]

I did once use the telemeter on my B&M Capeland to figure out how far away the lightning was during a storm :P But Tachymeter... no.

[tempocalypse]

I learned how to use it in high school, used it a few times, and now have long since forgotten what to do with it.

Though not very useful in daily life, its simple enough. Just time how long it takes to cover 1 unit distance eg 1km and the scale will tell you your average speed in unit measured/hour. Some watches put a unit on the scale but thats silly as the scale is unit agnostic. It used to be popular for rally racing as knowing your average speed was important to be able to tell how well you were doing. I presume its the second driver (I forget the correct term for the guy yelling directions) who does the measuring.

...all of which leads me to wonder why watchmakers bother to include the tachymetric scale as a 'feature'. I suppose to some it looks cool but, unlike the timing bezel, just isn't that useful.

Personally I don't really care that it doesnt have much practical use. It looks cool and a speedy pro or something like that with an iconic design derived from when Tachymeters were actually used (even if by a select few) just wouldnt look the same with a timing bezel or whatever. As for newer watches still using the scale I'll just say that looking cool is the most important attribute of a watch as far as I'm concerned :P

[Strange]

Personally I don't really care that it doesnt have much practical use. It looks cool and a speedy pro or something like that with an iconic design derived from when Tachymeters were actually used (even if by a select few) just wouldnt look the same with a timing bezel or whatever. As for newer watches still using the scale I'll just say that looking cool is the most important attribute of a watch as far as I'm concerned :P

As far as looking cool is concerned I agree regarding Speedmasters, since even if it wasn’t the first watch to have a tachymetric bezel it was certainly the most well known and is rightly regarded as an iconic design. The problem is that while it looks cool on an Omega it just looks naff on all the watches that copy the Omega.

Regarding looking cool as the most important attribute of a watch, I agree that looking cool is a sine qua non but it isn’t the only or even most important one. If a watch is utter shite in all other regards but still looks cool that would be a hard pass for me.