Was the first American AHCI Candidate a Fraud?
Steven Phillips (Istvan Fulop Hanzely) of Budapest Watch Company was a Hungarian born American master watchmaker and the first American candidate (not member) for AHCI membership 1 . Phillips claimed to design and build his watches from scratch, except fo...
He was a forerunner
Outsourcing movements and selling them as his own production. Still trying to figure out how the eternal movement works. Once again, thank you for your article. Can I suggest you to write us your point of view of the detent escapement on a dedicated discu...
Thanks for reading, I don't think he would have gotten away with it today.
Basically, he replaced the rotor with a roast thermometer. The bi-metallic spring would need to be enormous to power a wristwatch from just ambient temperature changes. Important to note its not a heat powered watch, like a Seiko Thermic, those use the Se...
Ok, I got it
The eternal movement is something that could be tried by Ressence, HYT or any other independent, using the Atmos' principle. There are plenty of liquids/solutions with low boiling point, the main challenge (and many more) is to seal the fluid circuit, but...
This is original research on my part, if anyone knew he was lying about his movements, they kept quiet
Maybe the AHCI figured it out too, but until now the consensus was mostly "innovator"
This is sad to see. Clearly there was fraud at play.
I don’t know about his EWS and if it ever actually worked as claimed, but from the rip off skeletonized watch pretending to be something special at a ridiculous price back then, I can only deduce that this guy was a conman! IMO the AHCI should have distan...