How Does a Mechanical Watch Work? (11 Watches Shown)
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- If you watched our recent beginner’s guide, you’ll remember that we touched briefly on how a mechanical watch worked-in a quick, but ultimately oversimplified way. If that left you unsatisfied and hungry to learn more, well, your time has come, because how on Earth does a mechanical watch work, anyway?
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A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph Boutique Edition 414.026
A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Referenzuhr 230.032
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I’m glad you return back to the basics from time to time to bring in new people into the world of watches.
There is nothing more sublime and satisfying than observing a watch escapement in action. It's wonderfully made
Yea I can stare at it all day! The finishing was also spectacular!
Yes there is something hypnotic about it
We love how well you explain the inner workings of the various watches you showcase. I would love to see how a quartz watch works and how it counts 20,000+ vibrations each second for years at a time.
Watch Steve Mould's video on Quartz Watches, he explains their inner workings very well and withouth makinng it boring.
I already knew how they worked and ended learning new stuff.
Hazzah for this..my growing (and frankly,bit scary)watch obsession is propelled ever forward every time i look down and just MARVEL at the miracle of this tiny thing telling me the time minute after minute with nothing but gears,bits of metal and energy. Im trying to convey this miracle the best way i can every time im asked about the obsession, i cant understand why ppl arent more amazed. "You realise theres no battery in this thing right?FFS DUDE..NO BATTERY!!GET IT??"
would love to see a video that explains the math and mechanisms behind various complications like perpetual calendars.
Mechanical watches is some of humanity's genial work that is very complicated but stil has a very logically construction. Just wonderful.
Brilliant explanation of Switzerland’s favorite little engine. Love your work. Bravo!!
I find myself being like a small child watching this wonderful clip with eyes wide open. Mechanical watches seem to be great toys!
They really are though
They're the coolest ones arround
They don't seem they are
I know all of this, and knew I would, but still watched it because I enjoy the format.
If could give this video several likes I would. Your explanation of how the energy is controlled and released was excellent. Thank you! 🧠👍
All your videos rock. Even when I know the content of the video I still watch it. Great job
They are incredible and beautiful machines.
A very good explanation of the need for an escapement to govern the release of the main spring so it doesn't just go 'ping' and flick all the hands off. I would be intersting from a mechanical view to understand the differences between the Swiss lever, George Daniels Coaxial and the Frederique Constant Monolithic oscillator versions with the pro's and cons of each.
More watch explanation videos like this please!
This is actually very educational, informative and interesting.
This is good content!
The eye candy on display in this video is just magnificent...
Your engineer is showing. And it’s brilliant.
THANK YOU for the "standard" presentation style! Such wonderful photography with stunning commentary! Well done!
Thank you! You made all this very understandable.
Would love if you could cover Nomos's proprietary escapement at some point and explain the difference between that and a regular escapement, it's something I don't quite understand. Thanks, great video!
The Nomos escapement doesn‘t differ from a swiss lever escapement in its function and working.
@@VietNguyen-pw1gz what is "proprietary" and if the answer is nothing, what is and what is the purpose of their escarpment patent?
@@VietNguyen-pw1gz Or maybe to simplify the question: What is the Nomos swing system? Because it sure sounds different from a regular escapement on their site, they have a patent on it, but I can't understand how it's any different?
I think you might be a little confused here. So what they did was basically develop a mechanism that does exactly the same thing like other escapements, but like, from scratch. What most watch companies do is buy the parts for the escapement from other manufacturers that each developed their own escapement mechanism and own the patent for that. Nomos designed and makes all of the parts they build inside of their watch movements from scratch so they didn't need to be dependent on other manufacturers. Also, the Nomos Swing System is actually the whole unit of balance wheel and escapement.
@@eliasblessing2554 Great, thank you that makes a lot of sense!
I’d like to see a video about the coaxial escapement.
Loved that, thanks. And big thanks for part-exchanging 2 of my watches to help get my 3rd Bremont - yes I am a big fan.
I was looking for something like this! For a fan of the art, this was great. Thank you
the water bucket metaphor is spectacular.. I finally understand how the spring motion is controlled
Finally, someone explain this in simplified way ,, Thanks
This is a great video for anyone interested in watches and how they work. Now, time to hit repeat and watch again...
Thanks for the lesson
Excellent simplified explanation of a beautifully complex mechanism. One of the many reasons I enjoy exhibition case backs on my pieces. It’s a shame Rolex won’t do it.
Looking at the rolex movement I think its better covered 😂😂😂😂😂
Wonderful video....beautiful watches, great explanation.
These are the videos I love. I love a bit of a historical context in videos.
I loved the video. Please make more like these.
I know that it’s silly, but that’s why I love your channel.
How about a video explaining the role of regular servicing for mechanical timepieces? (and why the industry is moving to replace watchmakers with disposable components)
Superb video from good people, it's not just about influence to buy a product, it's education. Well done guys.
Excellent video thank you 😊
This video is so good that I intent to use it for my English class. Top job, as usual 👌
I have to give this video a like for it's clear explanation using animation of water bucket to make it easier for layman to understand.
Very nice! I’d like to see co-axial escapement explained so clearly! Still struggling to wrap my head around it
*this content is what we want other than those $1million RM's*
Finally a video explaining how a balance wheel works!
Glorious B-Roll..
Great video thanks for making it!
Simply brilliant 👏
Great video. Thanks bud!
I suggested you do something like this a while back. Glad to see such a classy execution.
Absolute perfection
Great video…thanks.
Excellent explanation! Thank you! It may seem basic to some but is a revelation to me!
Would love to see a video with a in-depth review of the most popular complication. Chrono, day, date , annual , perpetual calendar, minute repeaters etc.
Not sure, if you have done it already, but if not, I would love an explanation of Chronographs. Love your videos. :)
Thank you
Great video 👍
Hi,could you do a video on the maurice laxcroix aikon tide?
It seems to me,like it deserves to be seen more,for what it is.
Best Regards
My fiancé and I watched (haha pun) this video together and we both really loved the visual!!! Really cool to see how a watch works ^-^
Excellent start. Let’s get into jewel bearings and vibrations per hour. Maybe explore something exotic like rattrapante detail inside the case.
Turn up the watch geek factor.
You could make a video on all of the different complications, how they work and how to operate them.
This is brilliant. Perhaps talk about water resistance rating in one the video
You and Tom are overdue a wee chat about the PRX Chrono.
Would love to see more videos like this, explaining the mechanics behind these wonderful creations. One thing I've long been interested to know is how the watch keeps ticking as it winds. If the unwinding spring powers the gears to move the hands, and the gears are all interconnected to the spring barrel (which in turn is fixed to the spring), how do the gears keep turning even as the spring is being wound in the opposite direction to which it unwinds?
It's because it's not being wound in the opposite direction to which it unwinds. The barrell is made of two concentric parts linked by the spring. One part is connected to the gear train and the other to the winding system, so when you wind, you don't remove torque from the gear train. You can clearly see how it works on a pocket watch
Great video ! Maybe it’s an idea to make videos like this explaining other complications ? How on earth does work.. perpetual calendar / turbilion / minute repeater.
Ayyy an actual video
Absolute class 👏👏👏
love your videos
can you do this with slow motion clips? i feel like this video didn’t deliver the last mile idea conversion from the water bucket metaphor into the actual lever escapement. also, show us the lever escapement actually getting pushed by the mainspring please!
I love this technical videos and I would like to see more of it. Like who does the jumping second really work. But I fully understand that this might not catch enough viewers which is essential for you 😐
Please explain the tourbillion in depth!!
A truly fantastic video! I'd be vey happy to see a "How it's made" video from you guys in collaboration with Certina or Omega for example...
Would love to see a more in depth- & more visually detailed explanation. E.g. showing different parts of the watch (animated?) and what they are used for. Thanks for this little trip into the watch though!
briliant
Do one on the grand seiko spring drive please.
Mr. Hands has touched more watches than a Rolex watchmaker.
Yes please, back to the basics.
Wonderful
perpetual calendar movement and how the whole thing works.
What about the precision it takes to make the watch accurate with actual tolerances and how each lets say micrometer difference equals to a loss of a second a day as an example.
Well done, thank you!
Spirit Zulu Time by Longines. Bought it quite recently so it better be positive.
Hi, I love your channel so much until I am loving the background music of your videos. Does anyone know the background music? 😂
Can we have one of these "How a watch works" featuring the Zenith Inventor?
Montblanc sport 7035 diver 200m please... 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I’m sure that the hour gets the torque from the minute, and the minute gets it from the seconds gear, which has to be regulated by the escapement. Not the other way around.
How about doing an episode on the Zenith Rainbow Flyback?
What about all the complications and how they work?
please make a video explaining how to use a bezel rule of a pilot´{s watch
This is wonderful 👍🏽
Superb
There's an excellent film from the 50's(?) made by Hamilton watch, about the watch movement. It's on this very same tube of you's.
How anything works would be great - helpful - I know. What are the machines that are used to make these things. How do you make these very tiny precise things. I saw a reference to a Rose Engine that is used in making watches.
Please feature the Tissot Seastar 2000 Professional, thank you.
really intersting and, as always, beautiful. Love watches but I still have a question that even Google is mute about : what determines the speed of a caliber ? why do we have various frequencies ?
regards
it's determined by a few things; the mass of the balance wheel (more mass slows it down), the spring (longer springs slow it down) and the gearing of the movement, they must be geared to match the frequency of the escapement.
For the escapement analogy you cold have used the asian water filling bamboo tubes, they used for timing. Forgot what they’re called.(
I used this video to try and justify to my wife why I spend so much on watches. Haha.
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Why do you need gems in the movement? What’s their purpose? I mean at first sight they seem to be fragile, yet they absorb all the shocks coming from the movement
I would love to know how a chronostop works compared to a chronograph
Cool.
Why jewels and not just metal hardware, composites etc.? Do the jewels do anything? Is this just a name given to them? We’re they used in original pocket watches ?
I believe it because of their resistance there is hardly any loss of material by friction
most important part is undertable to the flippers and bring to the 2nd hand watch shops.
Watches,...... old mechanical skills designed for keeping time, is a timeless skill.