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  2. Mechanical watch - Wikipedia

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    The hand-winding movement of a Russian watch. A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves.

  3. Fusee (horology) - Wikipedia

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    A fusee (from the French fusée, wire wound around a spindle) is a cone-shaped pulley with a helical groove around it, wound with a cord or chain attached to the mainspring barrel of antique mechanical watches and clocks. It was used from the 15th century to the early 20th century to improve timekeeping by equalizing the uneven pull of the ...

  4. Wheel train - Wikipedia

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    The motion work is the small 12-to-1 reduction gear train that turns the timepiece's hour hand from the minute hand. [6] [7] It is attached to the going train by the friction coupling of the cannon pinion, so the minute and hour hands can be turned to set the time. It is often located on the outside of the movement's front plate, just under the ...

  5. Watch - Wikipedia

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    The left watch has a 24-hour analog dial with a mechanical 1/6s "sweep" movement, while the right one has a more common 12-hour dial and a "1s" quartz movement. A Russian mechanical watch movement with exhibition case back, showing its movement. A so-called mystery watch, it is the first transparent watch, [50] c. 1890. The movement is fitted ...

  6. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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    Each specific watch movement is called a caliber. [3] The movement parts are separated into two main categories: those belonging to the ébauches and those belonging to the assortments. [2] In watch movements the wheels and other moving parts are mounted between two plates, which are held a small distance apart with pillars to make a rigid ...

  7. History of watches - Wikipedia

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    Some Bulova models featuring the movement have a smooth sweeping second hand rather than one that 'ticks' second-to-second. [47] In 2019, Citizen Watch advanced the accuracy of a quartz watch to +/- 1 second a year. [48] The improved accuracy was achieved by using an AT-cut crystal which oscillates at 8.4 MHz (8,388,608 Hz).

  8. Barrel (horology) - Wikipedia

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    Plain barrel I.e. without teeth, used in fusee watches and clocks. A chain, or cord, was wound around the plain barrel, connecting it to the fusee. Going barrel The form used in modern watches, is wound by turning the arbor and drives the watch movement by a ring of teeth around the barrel.

  9. Mainspring - Wikipedia

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    The mainspring in the common 1-day movement is calculated to enable the watch to run for 36 to 40 hours, i.e. 24 hours between daily windings with a power-reserve of 12 to 16 hours, in case the owner is late winding the watch. This is the normal standard for hand-wound as well as self-winding watches. 8-Day movements, used in clocks meant to be ...

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