Escapement of a mechanical watch

The escapement of a mechanical watch. The baseplate of the movement had to be cut out to see the relevant parts. This was done by watchmaker Rainer Nienaber, Bünde, Germany (www.nienaber-uhren.de), who also provided the movement to me.

It was difficult to film this because the tapered palette stones are somewhat transparent and barely visible. I tried to optimise the contrast and colour balance settings, but still you have to look closely...

Filmed at 1000fps, playback at 10fps.

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Science & Technology

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• Mechanical
• watch
• escapement
• high-speed
• video
• slow
• motion