How a Watch Works 101 | Crown & Caliber
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2020
- It should be no surprise the here at Crown & Caliber we love watches. From the most exclusive watches to quirky quartz watches we love them all. Sometimes we get so inundated in watches we can forget most people don't spend their day working with and around these fascinating instruments so we thought we’d create a How a Watch Works | 101 - The Basics.
We’re going to cover two sections, General Watch Lingo and Important Mechanical Terminology. And this is just scratching the surface, but hopefully helps you understand how these amazing machines function.
Video Highlights:
0:36 - General Watch Lingo - Mechanical Watch, Quartz Watch, Manual Movement, Automatic Movement, and Power Reserve
1:53 - C.O.S.C, Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute Explained
3:21 - Important Mechanical Terminology used in Watches - Mainspring, Barrel, Going Train, Motion Work, Escapement, Escape Wheel, Pallet Fork, Hairspring, Balance Wheel, Impulse Pin, Bridge, Jewels, and Oscillating Weight
4:13 - What is an Escapement
5:27 - What are Jewels
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Finally a channel where the explanation is dumbed-down for me to grasp. Thank you for sharing.
Brilliant. Coincidentally, I was thinking about wanting to know more about the movement and understanding the intricacies of horology more this week and read some articles. They were good but this was everything I wanted to know in a nutshell. Thank you and please do more of these types of informative videos.
Very clear tutorial with some excellent analogies. Great job C&C!
This is exactly what I needed :D hope there's gonna be a part 2
Thank you so much for posting this video. I've always wondered about the mechanics of a watch...
Could you do an in-depth look at how mechanical watch movements have been engineered through the ages? Particularly interested in how such delicate and intricate systems were created before we had electricity:
This video is awesome, you guys knocked it out of the park!
For a lover of watches. I still had no idea on movements lol. Thanks C&C great vid
Makes way more sense now.
Thank you
Love you guys, I’ve purchased three pieces from your company. Always great service.
Really appreciated the simple and clear explanation for this.
This is a TRULY FASCINATING video clip& explanation of this BRILLIANT subject.
Excelent video!! I would like to see a video of how the jewel bushings are made. Thank you!!
THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO.
VERY WELL DONE; CLEAR AND LOGICAL EXPLANATION EASY TO FOLLOW.
THANK YOU
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Thanks so much. Everything I wanted to know in one place!
I love these little devices! Great engineering and elegant operation!
Loved this video! I’m a watch collector and even I learned a few things! Thank you and well done.
nicely done, very informative and well explained
Just getting into watches. A lot of videos down the rabbit hole a lots of repairs, restores, good video on just the basics.
I have a question, I noticed in this video you said jewels are synthetic sapphire and ruby however, in my dive as shallow as it has been so far, I have yet to see a video with any other color jewel than the pinkish redish ruby color. Does any manufacturer utilize different colors on the jewels?
I knew I could depend on this channel for this explanation without disappointment. Thank you so much, now I know what Tim Mosso is talking about 😂
Its exact details ,i apreciate im a technician too thaks your video from the philippines
great explanation with visuals, great job
Great video! Very clear and objective! Thanks!
finally the best and easy to understand explanation
Any chance you folks would break down some of the different decorative/superficial aspects of a watch? Like the case, crown, etc?
how does the mainspring release its energy when it's being wound? similar to a music box, it does not make any sound when you are winding it up. It only does when you release the spring. can shed some light on this?
Very good, i look forward to a possible full animation tying things together. I have collected a few and can't have too many.
That's a great suggestion zellon66. We'll look into that!
Have you seen the old Hamilton one.... that's my favourite
great vid thanks. how about tourbillons and minute repeater mechs like why /how they work and came about?
Likes it but Since this topic lends itself to a visual style explanation I would recommend using more of a video showing what each part’s role is and how they work with the each other. You use video just to point out where the parts are and what they look like but a video showing they interact would be better to understand a very complex mechanical item such as a watch.
There are lots of other youtube videos showing this
Succinctly explained. Bravo!
Awesome information about watch lingo 👌
Excellent video thanks!!
A funky shaped gear indeed! Love the vid :)
How is powered hairspring? It can´t be just a tension of the spring. It needs some impulse to move again if the watches stops. Is it transfered from the spring through the escape wheel and palet fork? I thing it should be independent and only the hairspring affect the fork, not both ways?
Thank you for this video! 1 Question though, does the oscillating weight wind the watch either way it rotates or does it rely on one type of movement? e.g. left to right or vice versa
Hello Oliver. For a Classic Automatic movement, it's only one direction. Which is when it oscillates clockwise. However, some brands have come up with specific movements, which allow the spring to be wound whether the rotor goes clockwise or anti-clockwise. Eg: the Double Barrel winding system of the Caliber model of Cartier.
That Pallet Fork model was really awesome. Is it used in watchmaker schools?
Brilliant vid
Can you also explain the difference between different escapements like this one vs the coaxial escapement
This is really a description of the Swiss lever escapement. There are others in current production, such as Omega's coaxial escapement, invented by George Daniels.
would you guys be interested in my 1990s el primero class? I've not seen many around and they're from an interesting time when zenith decided to behave a bit more with the el primero 400 cal
How does this hair spring in balance wheel move
Maybe you can help: When opening my watch to replace the battery I discovered that a very small metal part (L shaped, that's the part that makes the contact between the battery and the watch) broke.
DO YOU KNOW THIS PART NAME? Thanks
Is there a spherical gear?
(April 2022) - Wow! I just discovered this great video on timepiece basics. Awesome! My only suggestion is to try a cut or quick fade from narrator to a video segment. Watching the narrator twist or twirl in transition was distracting to me. But the basics were covered beautifully.
Great job
AWESOME vid!
Great video! Congrats!
Nice review
Great explanation.
Can u please make a video on how a minute repeater watch mechanism work.
does a watch have a way to tune it to run slightly slower or faster? or is the manufacturing of it so precise that just having one model certified means that all others will keep similar accuracies?
Very good, very clear and informative. Loved it. Only problem however is the music is monotonous. Find a musician to assist you selecting music which is a little more intelligent and contrasts With your excellent explanations. This music conflicts.
literally have no better idea of how it actually works than before i watched the video
Thank you
I need a flow chart.
A molecular accurate cnc laboratory.
And access to the Akashik records.
Thanks in advance,
D.O.
What watch is this at 1:37
Does the COSC have to test every movement or just one type?
AFAIK They test every movement that's submitted to them by watch companies that wish to have their movements certified (and therefore allowed to put the name "chronometer" on the watches bearing said movements).
There is a third type of watch, the Hybrid, the Spring Drive.
Both are basically quartz watches but yeah it would be cool if they mentioned them in order to learn terminology.
@@lethean1757 I would say the oposite, 95% of the watch is mechanical, only the regulations is quartz, so pull out the Swiss lever escapement and replace it with a courts regulator.
What makes the balance wheel change Direction?
Where did you get this model????
Was the box illustrated escapement a 3D rendering or is there someone that makes this for sale?
Thanks😊
Alan Schiro , Can a hack be put into a mechanical automatic that does not have one ? By I loved this video
I would like to know which oil goes to oil which part. Please mention the oil number corresponding to the part that requires that oil. Thanks
Brilliant
that was cool! thanks!
What type of metal are they usually constructed from?
Nice!
Good Contents !!
Excellent
Can someone tell me the watch type at 1:29? It's a Jaeger LeCoultre, but which model?
Geophysics 1958 tribute. Took me 5 minutes to google it.
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@@iganpparamarta8813 Iiiiis that some some sort smug remark? Should I be impressed by your googling skills? Don't bother answering.
Why do most escape wheels have hook shapes on the ends of their arms opposite the side that the pallet fork strikes?
The moment the impulse pin releases one side of the pallet fork, the specially-shaped teeth of the escape wheel allow some mainspring power to “push back” against the pallet fork, sending the impulse pin to the other side, to start another cycle.
In the meantime, the other prong of the pallet fork catches the escape wheel in another location. On the impulse pin’s return, it releases that side of the pallet fork from the other side, and starts the process all over again.
I suspect this is why a mechanical watch with no mainspring power stops-there is no way to launch the impulse pin into another cycle via the energy transfer through the special escape wheel teeth. Or at least not enough energy for the impulse pin to knock the pallet fork hard enough to release the escape wheel again.
This video explains best, I think: czcams.com/video/9_QsCLYs2mY/video.html
Interesante, hay muchas personas de habla hispana que estarán y están muy interesadas en sus videos. Aunque no todas hablen inglés. Buen video . Interesting, there are many Spanish-speaking people who will be and are very interested in your videos. Although not all speak English. Good video.
Mechanism amuses me.
I prefer quartz movements as there is no escapement working like a hand brake on a car just to control the speed while driving and thereby using up most of its energy.
My understanding is that COSC does not test an automatic movement. Yet your picture is showing an automatic movement
Nice video
Thanks man!
I have 3 questions
If I wind my watch today...than its run whole day? I mean how many times it's run if I wind 10time?
2nd questions is that....if I wind today...its properly work next day also but if I will wind agin so it's defects my watch mechanism???
3rd is that in some video first wind antilock wise and than clockwise.. why?? Every time do first anticlockwise and than clockwise???
1. Depends on the watch's power reserve, but it should last a couple days at least if fully wound.
2. It shouldn't hurt your watch to keep it wound, some have protection for overwinding. But you should feel when it gets harder to wind.
3. I think you might be seeing watches with a screw-down crown that helps with water resistance. These have to be unscrewed first.
So does an automatic watch work in space?
exultant
Wow very good. I feel like that was a course and I should of paid for that
So the pallet fork is the thing that ticks in a watch?
Hey Steve,
Exactly! It's crazy that such a tiny piece can make an audible sound AND that it happens thousands of times a day!
Crown & Caliber Since a quartz Timex ticks loudly, is it wasting energy slamming its pallet fork around? Or are quartz watches different?
Different type of escapement mechanisms such as co-axial…… and etc
Because the osculating weight in an automatic movement require gravity, automatic watches do not work longer than their power reserve in zero gravity a.k.a. space?
inertia also plays a role and it can make the rotor spin around.
Gravity was not the best term to use. Like the previous post says inertia or the movement of the weight is what winds the mainspring. This movement can be caused by gravity, but most of the work is done by the movement of the wearers wrist and arm.
Part 2: How does a watch with perpetual calendar work?
Bro you're epic thank you you help me a lot
COSC veut dire: "Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres"
Once upon a time, seiko destroyed the swiss in chronometer competition, swiss got bitter and made the COSC exclusive to swiss watches.
Just one reason I'll never buy a Swiss watch. They get salty and WAY overcharge just to have 'Swiss made' on the dial.
And once upon a time observatory testing at Kew existed and it was way more stringent than COSC.
To gain class A Certificate which was the highest and therefore made a watch suitable to be used for marine navigation from the Kew Observatory, the timepiece was subjected to 45 days of tests (compared to the Swiss standard of 15 days of testing) with a tolerance of a few seconds per day. Plus, it had to be tested in five different positions and at three different temperatures.
Kew also published all the results so one could compare with which watch performed better whereas COSC doesn’t and we have no idea if a Rolex or an Omega before better than one another.
RandomUser221 they get a hefty amount of money from the high end Swiss companies. Because let’s say Rolex are held at such a high standard, they charge that high price, that high price is clearly much higher than what they actually cost, which turns into big profits for Rolex and cosc. Most things in life are a bunch of bullshit. Most of us get bullshitted.
RandomUser221 him? Lol ...
Once upon a time, Seiko fanboys repeat this same boring story as though it means anything. You are aware that the overwhelming majority of watches Seiko produces today are in the -30/+45 second accuracy range mass produced cheap 7S26/4R36/6R15 movements right? I buy German watches, but you guys are the most annoying twats in the watch world. I wish I had a dollar for every "DAE Seiko better than ALL other watches even though it's cheap and low end?". No, no they aren't. The Seiko that "beat the Swiss" all those years ago is Grand Seiko. Actual Seikos are cheap beater watches sold in malls. You never had a watch that "beat the Swiss" for
Jewels as what? Battery?
i have "E157" The anticlockwise wrist watch by 157 Industries Private Limited. I am sure you will like it.
I never understood why loop is used for adjustments and repairs. I do my adjustments using stereo microscope. I have a loop, but the microscope is universes a part. I got one through conections... But if you're in the business its a good investment. I think.
Next, how a Grand Complication works... 😄
Hey David,
That may take a little bit more effort. Haha!
Wonderful. Even a dummy like me followed it.
I'm a big watch fan with 13 watches (albeit inexpensive automatics from the likes of Bulova and Seiko et al) and 6 coffee table books on watches. Today I learned I pronounce isochronism (eye-sock-ranism) wrong (I always said ice-o-krone-ism). Let's not even look at Jaeger le Coultre!
Just visited to know crown mechanism, why I am so unluch watch whole video yet what I came for is missing and is the only part which is not included.
This wasn't about how a watch works, it was about watch parts.
i got a Waitrose advert
Please turn the music up, thanks.
I'm the 100000th subscriber
Can you maybe explain how a tourbillion works?
tourbillon are a thing of the past...over priced complication and not needed in todays world
@daAnder71 Thanks!!