How Does a Mechanical Watch Work? - Breguet 7027 | Watchfinder & Co.

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Just basic phisics man, didn´t go to school?

[@ddegn]

@@jf9669 "Just basic phisics man" I personally wouldn't credit this video with even "basic" physics. This video used physics related words but the author of the video displayed an appallingly poor understanding of what these words meant. The mainspring did not take the place of the pendulum; the balance wheel and balance spring (or hairspring) take the place of the pendulum. The mainspring takes the place of the weights used to power pendulum clocks. The way "momentum" is used in the video makes me think the author doesn't understand momentum beyond it being the product of mass and speed. Momentum is conserved when a bullet is shot from a gun. The recoiling gun has the same magnitude of momentum as the bullet leaving the gun. I think it's very clear the bullet does more damage than the recoiling gun. Saying a small rock at high speed does the same damage as large rock at low speed (it's implied they have the same momentum) goes to further illustrate the the author doesn't have a good understanding of physics. The conservation of energy is much more important to the workings of a mechanical watch than conservation of momentum. The energy of the balance wheel and hairspring is constantly changing between kinetic energy (the motion of the wheel) and potential energy (the compressed spring). Earlier pendulum clocks also used a constantly changing energy state as well. In pendulum clocks the kinetic energy of the swinging pendulum is converted to potential energy of the pendulum weight being elevated in a gravitational field.

[@ddegn]

​@N A So which of my corrections were incorrect? The narrator's education level doesn't change the fact there were really bad physics errors made in the video.

[@ddegn]

@N A "the slow/high speed stone example was a good analogy." So you think it doesn't matter if you get a kick from a rifle stock or hit by a bullet? They both have the same momentum after all. "This isn’t a physics video and I assume most people watching this aren’t physicists." If everyone watching the video were physicists, it wouldn't do any damage. "Let it go my man..." Hey, I let it go a month ago. You're the one who brought it back up.

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I was confused at first, but then realized the guy messed up: It's not conservation of momentum, but energy. Kinetic energy of the moving escape wheel converts into potential energy of the hairspring and stops the wheel, then converts to kinetic energy to let the escape wheel move again.

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Perhaps I’m wrong, however i think that the physics principle you’re referring is conservation of energy, not momentum. This is because as the balance wheel loses kinetic energy (velocity) the balance spring gains potencial spring energy and in that moment when the velocity is 0, it starts releasing the energy and starts the cycle over again. You are correct to think in momentum because both mass and velocity are highly involved in the accuracy of the process but not quite in that way. Indeed great video, as a mechanical engineer student this fascinates me and I highly appreciate this type of information that only adds to my love for watches and respect as complicated and precise mechanical pieces.

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Understanding what makes a mechanical watch mechanical made me fall in love! What watch holds the record for most time on a full "charge"?

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do you mean a watch that has the ability to hold the most amount of power once fully "charged"? that's called a 'power reserve', measured in the amount of hours/days it will take to fully tick through until it no longer has any energy left in the mainspring. I believe the record is Hublot MP-05 - a watch that costs as much as a house in the modern day in most cities, has like a 50 days or so power reserve. (to put that into perspective most usual ones i've seen around somewhere between 36 to 70 hours, a 70 hour power reserve on normal affordable, even luxury watches is usually considered a good number).

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[@GautamChatterji]

I liked the video but there are couple of fundamental things which I think would add to the general interest. The balance wheel oscillates independent of the energy provided by the barrel main spring, same like pendulum which is independent of mass but is depended on the length of string it hangs to and fairly independent of input force too, it will oscillate to its natural frequency. Basic science of spring mass oscillation which is independent of input force, that is depended on the spring stiffness, length and mass of flywheel. Otherwise the watch will run fast fully wound and slow down as the main spring uncoils, this makes the design of balance wheel and escaping even greater as it address one of the most difficult issue of main spring variable energy whilst performing the timing function. To make the timing mechanism go fast or slow the length of spring is altered which is mostly done by a regulator lever.

[@Chris-pb3se]

It’s important to stress that the pallet fork adds energy to the balance every time it moves, it’s not just moved by the balance. This is the exact, metered energy transfer, the fork tapping the balance as it’s knocked free. This concept is what most people have trouble with when trying to understand a movement. T

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Please make detail review of Seiko Chronograph spc 131 p with the picture of the movement

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I have 2 watches that are quartz movements and I have one automatic watch and I just received a Mechanical watch and love them! By the way all my watches are Invicta!

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Now id love to see a video about old pin-lever movements vs jeweled movements.

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Thank you . I do know how it works but I like to share my knowledge with other people . I have a Seiko 5 . A Orient Bambino . A Bulova automatic from 1950 and i just got a Hamilton field watch .