Tag Archives: mechanical watches

What is a Mechanical Watch?

Posted by on October 30, 2011 No comments

Frequent travelers will find it easy to adjust the time for different time zones, more easily than with a digital watch.

With mechanical watches, there are no worries about the battery going dead at a bad time (when camping, traveling in a strange country, fighting off zombies as the last human alive in New York).Chopard LUC Mechanical

Mechanical spring-powered timepieces are more than high-class items for collectors. customer manufacturers carry on to have mechanicals within their set up. Quality Swiss and Japanese automatic timepieces might be had for US$200 or less.

Popular manufacturers contain Invicta, Seiko, Swiss Army, Citizen, Timex, Orient and Hamilton.

A mechanical watch is a watch of a driving force, the course turns driven as it rolls. These gears then transferred power to a balance wheel, which evenly back and forth swings, with the same amount of time for each course. As the balance wheel swings “Inhibition”, then gears can equally advance the clock (what a mechanical watch the “ticking” sound). Rotating hands, on the gears then displays the time on the dial of the watch.

Mechanical watches are created one of the oldest technologies, by people. In 1524 a German locksmith named Peter Heinlein, the first spring invented portable clock driven in Nuremberg. Personal mechanical watches was then very popular with the nobility and the wealthy across Western Europe, and watchmakers vied with each other for the accuracy of their time and to improve their properties.

As the years went by, not only a symbol of elegance and distinction for a gentleman became fine mechanical watch but also a very necessary device housing for Commerce and industry. Today, a fine mechanical watch is the culmination of watchmaking. Currently, there are over 700 manufacturers of mechanical timepieces, to create the watches for each style you want and complications. A mechanical watch today really provides portable art that almost the unique personality of its wearer tailored embodies a refined elegance and sophistication.

Regular maintenance of mechanical watches

Posted by on October 18, 2011 No comments

On behalf of the taste or “pass on” value of the mechanical watch, probably because there is no wear and New Year holiday at rest, or after the holiday travel must be maintained, wear long-lost watch to re-adjust the time, must pay special attention to operation to avoid latch gear failure, the internal parts can not function properly, if properly maintained, it takes large sums of money to watch the status of maintenance can be reduced to a minimum cost.Panerai Ferrari Scuderia FER 00009 GMT Asia Valjoux 7750 Movement

Mechanical principle of adjustment time

Long standing, the natural relaxation of the winding mechanical watch to watch still, at this time, to re-wear, we must first re-tighten the spring, after calibration, should be general manager, said the general mechanical In the spring, when most loose, there will be hour, minute, slow down or faster phenomenon, we should be on the tight winding, so the calibration time, there is no standard power-driven pointer, even the self-winding watches, but also should be used to manual winding to eight full, then the time calibration.

Mechanical self-cleaning, maintenance principles: (1) soft cloth moistened with soapy water to clean (2) a soft cloth with clean water (3) dry with a soft cloth (4) dried (5) taboo not just send ultrasonic cleaning

Those who engaged in water sports watches, we need to do “maintenance”, particularly after the sea salt soak, swimming pool water filtration chemicals, are likely to cause erosion watch waterproof washers, hardened; some of their maintenance is done at home and simple with a soft cloth with a small amount of soapy water to clean metal and waterproof rubber strap, and eventually had to wipe a damp cloth remove traces of soap and water after the dry, you can reach the initial and maintenance performance, while never directly to the table have ultrasound equipment, where to do cleaning, ultrasonic cleaning watched because of the strong and weak at different frequencies, an ultrasound but uses wrong frequency, it is easy to cause internal parts loose.

Watches incorporating principles: (1) inspection and maintenance period (2) Check whether the quartz watch battery to be removed

Prolonged use or prolonged admission watches, watches must pay special attention to the maintenance period, the general maintenance of mechanical watches period of about 3 to 4 years, once over this period, the case is easy to dry oil stains internal and external waterproof gasket is easy to harden, use barely failure prone mechanical parts with water and dry oil stains cause parts wear, not to affect the initial operation, only to see the accuracy of the time becoming less and less over time, when to stop operation, the internal parts of the losses have been very serious to the point where, “meager” maintenance fee to become a “large” parts maintenance expenses.
Breitling Navitimer Chronograph Asia Valjoux 7750 Movement Two Tone Case with White Dial
In addition to mechanical repairs and maintenance to avoid problems, the quartz watch in addition to the internal parts lubricated with water-driven issues, not to wear in the long term situation, if the battery has been used for a long period of time, it is best not to put the tableshell for long-term admission to avoid battery failure, not only unable to supply problems, and may even be the battery fluid leakage problem of internal parts must be replaced.