Toodlepip
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Traditionally, top five are ...
minute repeater, split second, tourbillion, perpetual calendar and moonphase (presumably because moon phase does not equate to an even number of days).
A "Grand Complication" is usually required to have at least three of these.
Hope this helps.
Toodlepip!
What are the 3 most complicated of Watchmaking, I hear Split Second, and Minute Repeater
Other than the Split Second chronograph, and the Minute Repeater I hear consistantly, what is the 3rd most difficult complication? Is it the Tourbillion? The Tourbillion is seemingly common but I would guess it is the 3rd most complicated? Any Comments?
How does one define " most complictated " ??
.... i would greatly appreciate your comprehensive explanation, are there set rules as to what is considered " most complicated " ?? As i dont know much about watches, nor watch making, so, i look forward to your comments. Wouldnt combing a perpetual cale...
Strictly speaking,
A tourbillon is not a complication. It is simply a mechanism for improving the functioning of the watch (specifically, ensuring a low level of positional variation in timekeeping). For the same reasons, a constant-force escapement is not a complication. N...
To answer by example...
Three complications? 1. Whatever complications prevented the mythical Harry Winston Opus 3 from being realised; 2. Whatever complication has prevented the Vyskocil V-30/45-01-A from being produced before now; and 3. Whatever complication it is that has pr...
As to No 2... I think its not a complication but
Volker's quest for perfection... Magnus
Traditionally, top five are ...
minute repeater, split second, tourbillion, perpetual calendar and moonphase (presumably because moon phase does not equate to an even number of days). A "Grand Complication" is usually required to have at least three of these. Hope this helps. Toodlepip!
I beg to differ: the most complicated thing is to keep it simple and pure...
as this requires immense intellectual synthesis efforts to implement a given mechanism with as few parts as possible (see Ludwig Oechslin's MIH or even Ochs und Junior Annual Calenders). In other words: - 'complicated watches': watchmaking complication - ...
