Which navigational error increases most significantly due to fluctuations in 18th-century chronometer escapement?

💡 Explanation

When a chronometer's escapement fluctuates, timekeeping accuracy degrades non-uniformly because time drifts accumulate, causing cumulative longitudinal position errors. Therefore longitude error increases, rather than latitude, variation, or altitude errors, which depend more on instruments and star sightings.

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