Balancing The Balance Wheel Equals Accuracy It has been a winding road to get here. We have looked at the history of the balance wheel and the early days of the escapement and balance wheel. There has been plenty of…
The Accuracy Of Your Watch And Temperature Temperature and accuracy may not be something you would immediately think of when considering the purchase of your next watch? Believe it or not, it has a significant impact on the accuracy of…
Spring Energy – For Watchmakers Energy in the balance spring and the balance wheel creates the oscillations that is the beat of the mechanical watch. These beats or oscillations are what make measuring time accurately with a mechanical movement possible. …
The Technology of Measuring Time Over the last few months, I have been diving into the details of the watch mechanism. My objective is to deconstruct the watch mechanism and see how we would start to design it from first…
Isochronism, The Balance Wheel, and the Balance Spring I have been diving into the design aspects of the balance wheel and other elements of a watch movement from a very fundamental perspective. The first couple of blogs have set the…
Energy In A Balance Wheel How do I calculate the energy in my balance wheel? Or maybe we should ask why we care how much energy is in the balance wheel? A few weeks ago, I started to look into…
Creating Leather Watch Bands Last week we started to look at leather, with the aim of understanding how to identify great leather watch bands. The first step is to de-nature the animal skin so that it does not rot. After…
A Quality Leather Watchband – Sounds Simple? A quality leather watch band sometimes seems an impossible item to find. The thing is, with a few key questions, buying a quality watchband becomes a lot easier. The question is, what are…
Where would you start to design a watch movement? It is a tricky question, and to be honest, I am not too sure right now. But what I thought would be fun would be to see if I could make…
Watch Mainspring – The Energy Of The Mechanical Watch Movement The watch mainspring is just a humble spring. There are many springs in a mechanical watch, so understanding their different functions is essential for the enthusiast. The whole timekeeping movement…
