Just wonder how it performs is real life conditions or is just an horological curiosity. In any case it was beautifully built and is mesmerizing to look this huge balance swinging. As a coincidence, my watchmaker explained yesterday how much simple is to ...
if only that balance could be on the dial side so i could spend all day looking at it. looking at the second hand i suppose you should call it a dead half second, but without all the extra bits needed to make it work. just lovely Graham
Can you imagine a 24mm balance on the dial, where would the hands go :) We can dream G On 15 Mar 2013 19:43, "www watchprosite" *Alert from:* www:watchprosite > *Posted By:* AnthonyTsai (registered) on March 15th, 2013 - 12:43 > > *Title: This is just the...
It is indeed a massive balance, which looks like an antique English pocket watch. However, it does not appeal to me because of the proportion. Instead, some other big balance watches like zenith 135, volker vyskocil are breathtaking, sometimes I even feel...
I like it especially the breathing of the silicon spring. Only one negative, one hertz on the dial... Given the success of gronefeld's one hertz - it reminds me of their watch. Still, it's intriguing.
While I generally like larger slow beat balance wheels this takes things to another level. But wouldn't such a large and slow balance wheel be prone to perturbations in rate from wrist movements and shocks and be slow to recover? Andrew
Actually, if my understanding of physics is correct, the huge balance would be less susceptible to perturbation due to its extremely high moment of inertia. In fact, if I am not mistaken, the extreme moment of inertia is the key to pulling off an accurate...
Very interesting point Mitch. All my marine chronometers where 1/2 beat and kept perfect time. My Lange was just sheer perfection despite being made in '43 and used until i cant remember when before being decommissioned. Obviously you dont shake a gimball...
Interesting movement but there are good technical reasons why very slow beating balance wheels should and usually are avoided in writwatches. It might function perfectly well on a Witschi timing machine (as it is static) but it might as well be another st...
Wow! That is awesome! Is the watch accurate? I imagine it to be quite susceptible to shocks and with the slow beat slow to recover from then. But a large balance wheel would also have a high moment of inertia, so it would probably take larger than normal ...