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Because its easier and simpler to call it a watch than a chronometer.
If I had to keep asking people what the time was on their chronometers, i'd go mad!
because u need to watch it? idk lol
Originally watches were much larger items that you kept in your pocket. They were used by night watchmen. (Who kept watch at night). They were called watch chronometers.
Then we got the same process that gave us words like mobile (to mean phone) vacuum (to mean clean) and microwave (to mean oven),
Obviously because of the size!
NO one wears a chronometer on their wrist... therefore a mi nature simpler version is called a watch. A chronometer is a spring-driven escapement timekeeper, like a watch, but its parts are more massively built.
Becasue when they were new, people were so fascinated with the second hand, all they could do is WATCH. ☺
-MM
"Chronometer" came to mean a particularly accurate, high standard timepiece, when they were mechanical - now, even cheap electronic ones keep excellent time.
I've got an old Omega watch, bearing the inscription "Officially certified chronometer". It's a shame it doesn't work. Even so, it's absolutely accurate twice each day!
It's called a watch because you keep watching it for the time.
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