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Watch from 1500s with a stackfreed, an earlier solution to diminishing mainspring tension than the fusee (near top). Springs were first employed to power clocks in the 15th century, to make them smaller and portable. [1] [5] These early spring-driven clocks were much less accurate than weight-driven clocks. Unlike a weight on a cord, which ...
A modern watchmaker at his workstation; he wears a magnifying loupe to more easily see the small parts of a watch A watchmaker's lathe in use to prepare a decorative watch component cut from copper. A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since a majority of watches are now factory-made, most modern watchmakers only repair ...
In modern quartz watches, the timekeeper is a quartz crystal in an electronic circuit, powering a small stepper motor. Because of the small amount of torque needed to move the hands, there is almost no pressure on the bearings and no real gain by using a jewel bearing, hence they are not used in a large proportion of quartz movements.
The watch was an 18-size, full plate design. In 1869, the National Watch Company won "Best Watches, Illinois Manufacture" at the 17th Annual Illinois State Fair, for which it won a silver medal. [3] The company officially changed its name to the Elgin National Watch Company in 1874, as the Elgin name had come into common usage for their watches.
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The owner of a repeater watch can ask a watchmaker to change the pace, making it faster or slower. According to the book " Etablissage et Repassage des Montres à Répétition " by John Huguenin (page 39 of the original edition), "a minute repeater with an average speed takes about twenty seconds to strike 12 hours, three quarters and fourteen ...
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