Timegrapher — Watch Accuracy

NOW IN GERMAN, FRENCH AND JAPANESE Timegrapher is fully translated — not just the buttons, but the terminology, which matters more here than in most apps. Rate is Gangabweichung, marche, 日差. Beat error is Abfallfehler, erreur de repère, 片振り. Those are the words a watchmaker actually uses; they were taken from Witschi's own testing documentation, the French horological glossaries and Seiko's timing-machine manual, not from a dictionary. Prices, dates and decimal separators now follow your region throughout, and Japanese is set in a proper Mincho serif rather than dropping to a system face. IS IT MAGNETIZED? A magnetized hairspring is the most common reason a mechanical watch suddenly starts gaining time — and until now the app could tell you the watch was running fast without telling you why. Timegrapher can now screen for it using the iPhone's magnetometer. It reads the background magnetic field, then reads it again with the watch held against the back of the phone, and reports what the watch is carrying. A clear result means look elsewhere; a strong one means demagnetize before you judge anything else. Every check is kept, so a before-and-after pair shows whether the demagnetizer actually did its job. It's a screening tool rather than a calibrated gaussmeter, and it says so. AIRPODS Bluetooth microphones compress audio down to voice quality, which strips out the tick sounds Timegrapher listens for. The app now names the microphone in use whenever it isn't the iPhone's own, so you are never guessing. A wired earbud pressed against the case is unaffected — that one is a genuinely good technique. YOUR COLLECTION • Drag to reorder your watches • Tap the collection total to see its value over time, and tap the chart to read the value on any date FIXED • Market prices now fetch in your own currency, and typed amounts are read the way your region writes them. Previously an amount entered as "9.150" could be stored as 9.15 — a hundredth of its value. If you have logged prices that look wrong, they can be corrected by editing the entry. • Charts showed the same year repeated across the axis when several measurements fell in one year; they now step down to months, days or times as the span requires. • Buying and restoring Timegrapher Pro is more robust, and now explains itself if the App Store can't be reached instead of appearing to do nothing. • New setup illustrations for the measurement and magnetism screens. • Assorted layout fixes where longer watch names or messages could be clipped.