Dewitt Tourbillon Force Constante

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[ayuboaxx]

If I owned this I would just watch it all day, seriously.

[lolcat23]

Personally, i dont like when the outer rim of the cage is being used to drive the cage. i much prefer a petit moyenne which goes under the roue fix. that way you can bevel the edge of the cage.

[PhantomMigKiller]

@ayuboaxx Heck- if i owned a watch like this, I would be scared to death of either LOSING it or BREAKING it-! CRUMBS, Dangermouse!

[PhantomMigKiller]

@lolcat23 Well, if you say so...

[Kg277]

My $12.95 Casio is gonna get far greater accuracy than these things..

[picaticatara]

that makes me moist

[mithsel21]

What a quintessential melding of technology & art.

[fredderf12345]

simply beautiful work....its art combined with past/present human ingenuity ...the people who bring these kind of time pieces to life are more than above normal humans...amazing feet(and i wear a 15)

[toranamunter]

@Dystopiologist seriously? please tell me more about the mechanical watch that is more accurate than quartz, I dont believe you

[Dystopiologist]

@RollaArtis "see through dial"? That's the "Spaceview"! They're still around; you should pick one up just for fun! The index wheel isn't ruby (I believe it's beryllium-bronze), but it was an engineering feat. I heard something about ruby tools used to produce it; I don't know.

[Dystopiologist]

@RollaArtis,

You know, I think you're right - it did have a pressure-related error. I'm guessing that the air-mass around the tuning fork would cause a gain in rate as the air thinned out. But that couldn't have been much; perhaps it was worried about with regard to the space program.

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But poise error was the reason it couldn't obtain a "chronometre" certificate. If the tines faced down, it gained time; if they faced up, it lost time.

[RollaArtis]

@Dystopiologist Yes I know it was a tuning fork watch - my dad bought one of the first produced around 1965? with a see through dial, it was THE thing to have. The text book I studied years ago said that it had errors related to air pressure, I also remember the manufacture of the index wheel was problematic as it was made of artificial ruby.