How a watch works ; Mechanical movement

The best animation which explains the mechanical movement of a watch. I use this animation to show how 'simple' a movement of a watch works.
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[@kerryymm]

After watching a watch restoration video and not having a clue what any of the parts did, I’ve got to say this is the best and clearest explanation of how it all works that I’ve found. Thank you!

[@clark2711]

They may look just 5 basic elements, but this is without a doubt the masterpiece of engineering. Such an ingenious mechanism.

[@ms4h13]

Very very clear and perfect explanation for beginners (like me) who want to understand how a mechanical watch works. My compliments mate and thank you very much for sharing this!

[@arijit369]

This in my opinion is the best graphical explaination of mechanical watch's movement.

[@muhammadaminurashid6070]

So far this is the best and understanble video i’ve ever found. Great works 👍🏻

[@tsvikanahir9428]

Super! This wonderful 3D video together with the 1949 Hamilton clip are the best visual explanation for mechanical watch mechanism.

[@therealquade]

+Tsvika Nahir There's one thing I still don't understand, and that's the whole balance assembly. It swings back and forth flipping the escapement, but how do you regulate how long it takes for it to hit the escapement in the first place? I get that there's a spring coil that looses energy to and gains energy from the escapement, at a regular interval, but how do you regulate how long that interval IS? and doesn't the spring slowly wear out over time? The other video I watched said this happens 5 times per second, but what regulates this? the size of the balance assembly? the length of the spring coil?

[@bboystancho]

yes, I am wondering the same :/

[@Ace-hm1by]

@therealquade @Stanislav Velev Do you know how a 1 meter long pendulum will always swing once per second, regardless of how far the swing goes? It’s like that, but instead of gravity being the primary force, it’s the elasticity of the hairspring.

[@russellmathias6911]

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[@karsynfletcher2826]

@Russell Mathias instablaster :)

[@sagheerahmad7151]

This is underrated, best explaination video ever

[@Pindi44]

Beautifully illustrated and explained, many thanks.

[@JackJazzm]

Awesome break down of the ingenious workmanship of the amazing mechanisms 👍🏾 Thanks for sharing

[@nickmaris100]

Beautiful work both at an aesthetic and didactic level.

[@betoelias4891]

😮😮😮😮Maravilloso, Increíble 👍👍👍👏👏👏

[@balasubramanianp1372]

Thank you 🙏. Very concise. 100 times better than other KZbin videos on watches.

[@gladiator7731]

Great video! Such simple and yet detailed enough so we can understand the mechanical concept.

[@Pindi44]

Great animation and explanation, many thanks.

[@ajitgeorgekuruvilla7384]

Great demonstration of the mechanical concepts. Thanks.

[@Pindi44]

Very well explained and presented, many thanks.

[@davidcoleman2463]

Beautiful .thank you . I am going to buy my first mechanical watch .

[@grassmugge]

Excellent. The best that I've seen so far. Thank You!

[@tharindudhananjaya1036]

Great.This video shows everything simply.

[@Loeffelmeister]

Very clear and explanatory video!

[@yetanotherperson6436]

Love that this is a silent video.

[@AmanKumar_aktomjerry]

Nice video. Really informative :) Thanks for the share

[@vaibhavm1007]

Thanks for this video! So informative!

[@4wallphotographs376]

Thanks, very good quality and understandable

[@Vishalkumar-mu5hy]

The fight between impulse jewel and pallet lever that never ends.

[@PravinKumar-ym9uo]

this is an innovation and outcome for the effort by watch makers from generation

[@WatchGeek]

excellent, and I agree with the comment about the Hamilton video being the best so far, although this one is awesome as well

[@EdLove]

Amazing technology, and it's being discarded in favour of digital. It's still mind blowing!

[@sma1968]

Actually Quartz watches did it in in a big way in the 60's. If anything, mechanical watches are more popular now than they were thirty and forty years ago.

[@gurriato]

This is very rudimentary compared to a digital watch.

[@YasharNP-s5m]

Very good animation

[@PRNadh]

excellent video demonstation, thanks to all

[@Oldtimerider]

Absolutely brilliant video

[@faroukkhan476]

Excellent video

[@windestruct]

This will help me repair my grandfather's clock

[@rohit.r03]

"1:15" Most imp Thanks There are end number of videos No one explained this. Thanks a Ton..

[@kyra6061]

i didnt quite get how the controller gets his enegry from

[@garmin1488]

That's a actually a very good question, the energy comes from the pallet fork, it actually gives the balance wheel a small "push" each time it swings back and forth.

[@davidhummel7455]

@@garmin1488 thank you man

[@josesaraiva6248]

@@CortezEspartaco2 the qiustion refers to the controller energy, not the mainspring energy.

[@nutritionwithdeepti4685]

Because of winding, the energy gets stored and is used to drive the wheels.

[@gabih1337]

Amazing explanation!!!

[@Dutchenter]

Holy shit! Smart stuff...

[@syllajnr99]

my best video on how automatic watches work, congrats

[@ce.nz0]

Very good animation.

[@naveenrawat.91]

excellent presentation.

[@jonathancactusled7776]

Hey ,it's beautiful,may I ask you a question : what software make the video ?

[@SuperUnic0rn]

Any 3D modeling and animating software can do it. Maya, 3Ds Max, etc. You can play with a free one called Blender. You can also leverage CAD software because it specializes in precise physical simulations like this involving gears and other components.

[@sma1968]

Fantastic animation

[@sophieyin6498]

Hello. I'd like to use this video in an museum. Could you tell me where did you found it and who is the creator ? Thanks, Sophie

[@ReloGeando]

Hi! This video is very educatinal! Can I use it for a video in my channel? Of course, i will mention it belongs to you

[@tomelifeisjustonebig]

Does the mainspring fully unwind immediately or is it stopped from doing so by the escapement mechanism?

[@nutritionwithdeepti4685]

The Most Underrated channels I had ever seen.

[@johnduffy5188]

Wow, awesome

[@himanshuganji6354]

Brilliant

[@NicoleMonterEsc]

this video is great!

[@SuccubusLover69]

Perfect, thanks !

[@josevaldivia3796]

Excelente video !!! Gracias

[@nathanchin2483]

This was awesome.

[@Andrew_Lemon]

Been looking for a video like this

[@Andrew_Lemon]

Great video good job

[@bentori]

this video inderstand well nice

[@yourdata2478]

Love it⌚

[@ViralPatel-kz4rg]

Sir mera ek sawal hey... Mechanical watch me pahele anticlockwise wind dene ke baad hi kyu clock wise wind dete hey? Agar ye sahi hey to pata kese chalta hey ki itana saa anticlockwise wind karo baad me wo clock wise wind karne ke liye ready hey.. or agar aaj mene watch ko wind kiya wo kal bhi chal rahi hey or mene firse wind kiya to kya meri watch defects hone ke chance hey???

[@nicparker3809]

Like bob lazar and anti gravity..it works..

[@krunaljrana]

That's why I love my field Mechanical Engineering

[@danielgimeno]

Where can I find info about the number of Gear's teeth?

[@alexanderg8466]

Which softaware did you use?

[@hidgik]

What keeps the balance wheel oscillating without slowly coming to a halt?

[@Enrico-]

The impulse that the fork of the lever gives to the jewel pin on the escapement wheel.

[@kawosdhdos]

great video. Im kinda confused on how 3rd and 4th wheel (minute and second wheels) spin faster than the hour wheel

[@JamesK7911]

Aye I have a wrist watch and the cool part is that it’s see through. I got mine after I saw that my first grade teacher had one. The only thing that’s different between this animated watch vs my watch and my teachers watch is that all 3 hands are on the same gear. The second hand isn’t in its own circle. Another thing is that both of ours are see through and there’s this metal semicircle plate in the back surrounded by liquid and it moves whenever you tilt the angle of the watch. If some can explain to me what that’s for, that’s be amazing.

[@purrple.shadows]

Automatic winder, the motion winding the mainspring.

[@aayushkhandelwal4912]

How u maded that animation bro which software

[@v-birdworld8079]

Ok ! If I start this watch how many hours its can work?

[@kosiak10851]

What makes balance assembly to keep swinging as long as energy present? Is it also connected to main energy spring but not via gears? Isn't it shown here?

[@Thesupremeone34]

the energy comes from the mainspring through the escape wheel. When the pin approaches the locked escape lever, it hits the far side of the fork relative to its direction of travel. This dislodges the escape lever and causes the escape wheel to turn due to pressure from the mainspring. When the teeth of the wheel pass over the angled face of the palettes, it swings the fork of the escape lever at a speed faster than the pin on the balance wheel. As this happens the side of the fork that wasn't hit swings from this impulse and strikes the back of the pin, imparting energy into the balance. Then the other pallet gets caught in the escape wheel, locks, and the process is repeated in the other direction.

[@brianstucky554]

@@Thesupremeone34 That was the piece I was missing. Thanks!

[@thequantaleaper]

To simplify what is stated above, essentially there is a lot of energy behind each movement of the escape wheel, every time the pallet releases for movement, it pushes the rocker with enough force to push the pin forward in either direction. The timing spring is just allowing a bit of that energy to return to knock the rocker loose off the next tooth so it can continue.

[@jamesfeng6068]

How do you make this video?

[@mamiferuD]

great vid man.. something similar for quartz?

[@DJRevan]

Perfect.

[@marvelclips4699]

looooooooove ittt man

[@mnabdallat]

Can i reshare it on instagram ?

[@Bidle78]

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[@kiranmalvankar7805]

2good excellent

[@northwest3502]

how many times do you have to wind the crown for it to work? just once or multiple times?

[@Thesupremeone34]

the honest answer is until it gets tight, it's kinda a touchy-feely thing because you can break the mainspring by overwinding it. It kinda feels like a hard stop when you hit the point, but you can go past it. Most watches wind themselves these days so it's not usually a problem.

[@itsalgud1459]

On modern watches, you can’t overwind because there is a clutch mechanism to prevent it. Both my automatic watch’s manuals tell you how many times to wind, but overwinding is no problem. Not so when I was a kid back in the late fifties, when I overwound and broke my first watch!

[@Enrico-]

Every 40 hours or so usually. Today there are a lot of watches that last more like a few days.

[@bentori]

this video inderstand well

[@Gajinikanth]

Nice

[@Alfred_Yusheng]

Thanks for sharing

[@anschaulicherklart.tuncaya1606]

👍

[@krystianstepien5835]

Help me to understand from where is the power to make the first tic. The clock is run out (the spring is unwinded). The clock is stop. Fork is not moving, balance wheel is not spinning (balancing). The jewel is blocking the escape wheel by the last beat of the system. We start winding the clock and the power from main spring starts to rotate the wheels one by one until the escape wheel is powered. This is the magic moment. HOW THE ESCAPE WHEEL MOVES THE FORK FOR THE FIRST TIC TO PASS THE ENERGY INTO THE HAIR SPRING IN THE BALANCE WHEEL WHEN THE JEWEL IS BLOCKING THE SYSTEM ?

[@Enrico-]

The escape wheel moves one of the pallets in the lever (or anchor), if it's not one is the other. At that point the fork engages with the pin on the escape wheel on the other side of the lever. The balance wheel swings in one direction and that re-engages with the fork and swings in the other direction completing an oscillation, and it keeps doing so until the gear train is going.

[@KingdaToro]

Without power from the mainspring, the balance spring will pull the balance wheel into its center position. This will, in turn, move the pallet fork into its center position, where it is not locking the escape wheel at all. When the watch is wound, the escape wheel will push the pallet fork to one side or the other, starting the balance wheel moving again.

[@Villanelle1783]

The time indidcator's Alternative name is dial

[@KingdaToro]

That's just one part of it. The motion works (the gears that run the hands) and the hands themselves are not part of the dial. The dial is just the thing you see behind the hands that has the numbers on it.

[@shmu1406]

Thanks to Christiaan Huygens.

[@philipbrailey]

For me it’s hard to read and watch. Should be some audio.

[@natebeattie8945]

the system is non linear, much in the face of our general perception of time

[@wyw7343]

where is the energy keep the balance assembly swings back and forth 2:14

[@activetruman5613]

The escape wheel moves the pallets which moves the balance wheel

[@osvaldinorodrigues7591]

🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗👏🏼👏🏼

[@Animalkisser]

If a watch wprks with just five elements, how come that most watches have about 100 parts???

[@alzenbalto7668]

👍👍👍.

[@baselalaa4100]

didnt get the energy part

[@levantateyora9317]

And people dont believe on free energy machine and what is this them?

[@gurriato]

Checkmate, atheists!

[@Enrico-]

You need to wind it. It ain't no such thing as free energy.

[@claytonmcminn1121]

No sound

[@anasqai]

Anyone any idea if i will become like this hanging one at my neck maybe?

[@anasqai]

Just a joke.

[@steverichey7517]

needs music....

[@ghanashyampayeng2310]

Fuck who else have tried to raise the volume thinking that the phone media volume might be at Zero.

[@PinkeySuavo]

JD

[@Arthur93ify]

Wasting up my time...