How to Use chronometer in a Sentence

chronometer

noun

• At Sumter, clocks ticked, chronometer hands whirled, as one slow minute passed, then another.
  — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2024
• Sir Ernest stood by under the canvas with chronometer, pencil, and book.
  — Daniella McCahey, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Inside the dial are three chronometer subdials, each with its own small stainless steel hand.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• And it's all set to run within -3/+5 seconds a day, higher than chronometer standards.
  — Daniel Bentley, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2021
• Back then, a marine chronometer could cost the equivalent of one-third of the price of the entire sea-worthy vessel.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• Shul joins Ball’s Explorers Club and the watch in his honor is a chronometer that displays the time in three zones.
  — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• As time-telling became more precise, ship navigators needed a standardized way to set their chronometers.
  — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
• Grab the Todd Snyder–exclusive chronometer before that bezel can reach a full rotation.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• To be certified as a master chronometer, a watch must not lose a second in 24 hours and can gain only five seconds in the same period.
  — Daniel Bentley, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2021
• Marine chronometers were used in the 18th century to aid navigation.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
• With few exceptions, the modern gadget is as impossible to navigate as were the seas before the sextant and the marine chronometer.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2008
• The magnetic compass, gunpowder, the printing press, the chronometer, the cotton gin, the steam engine and the water wheel are among the many examples.
  — Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
• The timepiece features a unidirectional rotating bezel, a chronometer, a screw-in crown, and a helium-escape valve.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
• Nardin’s heritage in marine chronometers while continuing to push the envelope in modern horology.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
• The awards were launched in observance of a half-century of the iconic Rolex Oyster chronometer, the world’s first waterproof wristwatch.
  — National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2016
• Harrison spent 40 years of his life developing his revolutionary sea clock, called a marine chronometer.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
• The escapement’s pallet lever, on the other hand, is unusually crafted in 14-karat gold, a nod to historical chronometers.
  — Elizabeth Doerr, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2023
• The brand’s historic ties to marine chronometers are represented in the boutique’s blue carpets, resin floors and the smooth finishes of its furnishings inspired by rocks polished by ocean waves.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
• Harrison is the famous inventor of the marine chronometer which enabled accurate navigation at sea.
  — Nicholas Manousos, Bloomberg.com, 21 July 2017
• Harrison was self-educated, and is credited with creating the first marine chronometer to calculate longitude when sailors were at sea.
  — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2018
• Making use of a patented new mechanism, the Day-Date was the world’s first automatic chronometer featuring both the day of the week spelled out in full as well as the date on the dial.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2026
• Powering the chronometer is Ulysse Nardin’s caliber UN-118 movement.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2022
• The move would result in the Besnaçon Observatory launching a new chronometer certification.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2022
• The chronometer achieved an unheard of precision of one second per month, allowing the navigator, Harrison’s son, to predict his landfall within a single mile.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
• Mystery Clocks that were introduced in 1912, which presented the hands seemingly floating in midair within the transparent body of the chronometer.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 19 June 2022
• In Warren’s own telling of the story, his first attempt at an electric chronometer was a crude motor that connected the gears of a clock to the Boston Edison electrical system.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2024
• Eighty-four years later, a scientific expedition to the bottom of the Northern Atlantic ocean recovered a chronometer from the bridge of Titanic.
  — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• The French watchmaker served as the official supplier to the French Royal Navy and built much of its reputation on its ultra-precise marine chronometers.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 14 July 2024
• Yet, just as the onset of reliable marine chronometers in the 18th century unleashed an era of global trade, improved timekeeping technology today has the potential to catalyze economic growth and new services.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2025
• This mission has drawn comparisons to the 18th-century quest by clockmaker John Harrison to build a portable marine chronometer robust enough to function accurately in a ship tossed about by ocean waves.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2025