====== Regulator watch ======
{{wst>image_cl|Chronoswiss|Regulateur|[[Chronoswiss Régulateur]]\\ with **regulator** dial}}

A **regulator watch** (or sometimes in short regulator) is a watch with a special kind of dial or [[hand]]s arrangement.

Previously, these watches were special grandfather clocks which were used for [[precision adjustment]] of the [[rate]] by regulators working at watch workshops. These watches had a dominating large, central main pointer of the minutes hand, while the remaining hands were made smaller and located in decentralized areas of the dial.

In the model [[Chronoswiss Régulateur|Régulateur]] of the company [[Chronoswiss]] from [[1987]] this display principle was first transferred to the [[wristwatch]]; since then there is a variety of vendors which present models of this watch type.


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