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We celebrated two years on this blog, and then everything went quiet. It must have been a bit of a shock for our regular readers,
17. May 2023
We celebrated two years on this blog, and then everything went quiet. It must have been a bit of a shock for our regular readers,
Playing Catch-Up It has been quite a busy few weeks. You may not have noticed by the number of emails or the posts on social
We are coming up on our second anniversary for our blog, and, as we did last year, I thought it would be good to take
Gearbox, Watch Movements, and Reverse Gears How did I conflate a gearbox with watch movements and zero in on the reverse gear? It is a
It’s Familiar – But Never Seen Before A patented time display that looks so familiar you think you have seen it before. Yet, a precise
We All Want To Be Good Stewards Of Our World I have been on holiday over the last week, and it provides a very needed
Luc from Crystal Clear Watchmaking wanted to talk dress watches. This was hot on the heels of his tricky question about customers who designed an
“Let’s repurpose the wheel, but not reinvent the axle” was our approach. This was not a specific reference to the mechanics in the watch movement,
We left the first installment with Luc from the Crystal Clear Watchmaking podcast, having just discussed developing a new watch complication. It was certainly not
“We need 200 single-hand watch movements with an accurate minute display” These are not words we could use with a movement manufacturer to get what
The hour ring is the largest surface area on the SNGLRTY watch face so sets the tone for the rest of your design.
The OHI movements, or One Hand Indication, are unique to SNGLRTY. During the development phase of the watches Daniel and Steve used this moniker before naming it SNGLRTY. There are two distinctive movements to choose from, OHI-2 and OHI-4.
The OHI-4 movement is built on the Decorated and Fully Adjusted SW-300 tractor movement from Sellita. On top of the tractor movement the SNGLRTY complication plate is assembled and incorporates the “reverse minute gearbox” that is available exclusively from SNGLRTY. Depending on your selection, the complication plate will also relocate the date wheel from the top of the tractor movement to the top of the complication plate. Relocating it in this manner increases the size of the date disc and moves it closer to the top of the watch face improving its readability considerably.
The OHI-2 movement is the same as the OHI-4 movement except that it is built on a standard execution Sellita SW-200 movement.
Finally, depending on the movement you select the watch case will have a different profile as the OHI-4 movement is thinner than the OHI-2 movement. The key differences are that the case for the OHI-4 movement has a double domed crystal and a flat caseback. The OHI-2 case has a flat crystal and a curved caseback. All the details are in the product page.