2014年8月12日火曜日

The Correct Pronunciation and meaning of the WANCHER! ワンチャー

Many of the English speakers are asking us why this funny name WANCHER and its meaning.

Honestly I dont know what it means in English and why it is funny in English as my English is not that good!!

But when I asked my English speaking friends especially from UK they said it is a bad word and

they pronounce it as WANCHER( Ch--as K)

So I ask the Wancher brand designers about it and the answer was as below from them:

 the correct Japanese way pronouncing is different with different meaning.

The correct pronunciation of the name is WANCHER  (  CH as in Chair).

Meaning ワンチャー is an ancient Japanese-Chinese word;  the direct English translation is hard

 to explain but here I translated the English to my best

The devotion and achievement of the goal involving everyone irrespective of borders while

sticking to the roots.

I was also surprised to know it. I hope this helps!





WANCHER Fortitude Airforce Pilot Chronograph 20JW Tachymeter Automatic luminous Watch



About WANCHER Fortitude
Fortitude means the strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or any challenge.
Inspired from this concept, WANCHER has applied for this Fortitude Watch series.
An Airforce Pilot watch: the dial is same as the airforce figther jet dashboard.
Pilots always need the exact and accurate time. WANCHER always strive hard to make the watch with mechanical movement and maximum accurancy.
In the quartz system the electronic watch can be accurate by the batteries but in mechanical watch, the accuracy is very difficult to achieve and thats why WANCHER team take this challenge to make the best accuracy and the best movements.
In mechanical watches because mechanical watches are the best watches to use with lot of fun and old memoeries.
2 Dial eyes
This WANCHER Fortitude Watch has 2 eyes for Minutes and Seconds.
You will never loose track of time with this WANCHER Sun Watch Series.
Chronograph System with Movement 2901
A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch. A basic chronograph has an independent sweep second hand; it can be started, stopped, and returned to zero by successive pressure on the stem.
WANCHER Addition Watch has the extra subdialsm and the buttons (pushers) on the side of the case. These pushers start, stop, and reset the timing function, while the rest of the watch runs as usual.
This Chronograph Watch Mechanism can be used for both men and women as every watch lover, regarless their gender, can have huge knowledge about technical aspects of watches.
Power Reserve Indicator
Power Reserve Indicator (originally called Réserve de Marche) is a complication of the watch, which is designed to show the amount of remaining stored energy. The power reserve indicator indicates the tension on the mainspring at any particular moment.
Power Reserve System Function
The power reserve indicator is one of the most useful features of a mechanical watch besides the actual time display. The mechanical watch operated either by automatic- or manual winding. In order to run at a regular rate a mechanical timepiece needs to have at least 30 per cent of its mainspring wound. An automatic timepiece needs to be worn for about 10–15 hours before it is fully wound.
The power reserve indicator displayed on the watch with automatic- winding movement shows how long a watch will function when not worn. The one displayed at a watch with the manual winding mechanism shows the time left for its next winding
Self Winding Mechanism - Automatic Mechanical Movement
The movement must be accurate, reliable, take the shock of firing a gun and throwing a punch, be relatively temperature stable, automatic, and anti-magnetic.
Each click wheel consists of a perimeter gear, a central gear, and, in the middle of the central gear, a fixed smaller gear.
The perimeter gear has ratchet pawls around the inside. The central gear has sloping teeth around its circumference that engage with the ratchet pawls around the inside of the perimeter gear to act as a “one-way” clutch. When the left click wheel assembly is rotated counter clockwise by the clockwise movement of the master gear it will turn the central gear, turning the upper gear in a clockwise direction. However, when the master gear rotates counter clockwise the left perimeter gear will turn clockwise, this will not engage the central gear but, the left perimeter gear will turn the right perimeter gear counter clockwise, engaging the right central gear and again, turn the upper gear in the same clockwise direction. This mechanism allows the rotor (connected to the master gear) to swing in either way or still wind the watch in a clockwise direction.
Tachymeter
Tachymeter is actually a tool used to compute speed based on travel time over a fixed distance travelled (like one mile or one kilometer). Thus, the tachymeter bezel or dial is a logarithmic scale (actually it’s not, as spacings between the marks on the tachymeter dial are proportional to 1/t where t is the elapsed time) that simplifies the computation of speed of an object, by computing the following function:
Tachymeter Dial = 3600 / Elapsed Time In Seconds
For how to use a Tachymeter Function, please click here
SPECIFICATION
Manufacturer: WANCHERModel number: WAWT-FORTITUDE-BKGRNSLOBW
Movement: 2901
Mechanism: Pilot Chronograph
Color: Silver case
Straps / Belt: Leather Brown color
Second Hand 9:00 position Chronograph minute cumulative total of 3 o'clock position Chronograph start-stop 2:00 position push Chronograph reset 4:00 position pushCase back: SkeletonCase material: 316 Stainless Steel (Specular reflection finished)Thickness: 15mmCircumference: 42mm (crown excluded)Water resistance: 5ATMMade by WANCHER