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Got responses from Glashütte
I have sent two questions to Mr. Köppe, Head of the Service Department at G.O. and a master of watchmaking himself, which he kindly responded to.
The first one is about the purpose of the planetary gear inthe Senator Chronometer and the second about the discussion that spun away from the first one.
For precision's sake I will quote the original German conversation next to a Google translation into English:
1.
F: Wozu dient das Planetengetriebe auf der Rückseite des Kaliber 58 ?
A: Das Planetengetriebe wirkt als Differential für die Gangreserveanzeige. Mit anderen Worten, es wird über dieses Getriebe die die Darstellung Ab-Bewegung die Auf-Bewegung beim Aufziehen ermöglicht.
Q: What is the purpose of the planetary gear on the back of the Caliber 58?
A: The planetary gear system acts as a differential for the power reserve indicator. In other words, this gear system enables the downward movement and the upward movement during winding.
2.
F: Tritt beim Aufziehen einer Uhr mit Spiralfeder-Antrieb so etwas wie eine kurzzeitige Zugkraftunterbrechung auf?
A: Beim Aufziehen des Federhauses von Hand (oder auch Automatik) kommt es keinesfalls zu einer Unterbrechung der Energieversorgung, da der Federkern in Aufzugsrichtung bewegt wird, daher in Richtung spannen der Feder. Der Effekt der Kraftunterbrechung tritt eigentlich nur bei Großuhren auf. Hier wird (bei hochwertigen Großuhren wie Präzisionspendeluhren) die Kraftunterbrechung durch ein Gegengesperr kompensiert.
Q: When winding a watch with a hairspring drive, does something like a brief interruption in the tension occur?
A: When winding the barrel manually (or automatically), there is no interruption whatsoever in the power supply, as the spring core is moved in the direction of winding, i.e., in the direction of tensioning the spring. The effect of power interruption actually only occurs in large clocks. Here (in high-quality clocks such as precision pendulum clocks), the power interruption is compensated for by a counter-locking mechanism.
A: When winding the barrel manually (or automatically), there is no interruption whatsoever in the power supply, as the spring core is moved in the direction of winding, i.e., in the direction of tensioning the spring. The effect of power interruption actually only occurs in large clocks. Here (in high-quality clocks such as precision pendulum clocks), the power interruption is compensated for by a counter-locking mechanism.
Btw. I totally agree with you that a timegrapher would not be able to pick up any variation of rate during winding exactly due to the reason you give.
Have a good week!
Martin
Senator Chronometer
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Got responses from Glashütte
I have sent two questions to Mr. Köppe, Head of the Service Department at G.O. and a master of watchmaking himself, which he kindly responded to. The first one is about the purpose of the planetary gear inthe Senator Chronometer and the second about the d...
Depends :-)
Of course I have asked it due to our discussion that arose from the gear set. But I did not explicitly put it into this context because I did not wand to imply anything in the question.
Thanks for chiming in Nico :)
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