I agree on the pallet fork that is not matching the level of efforts they did put on other parts. Could still be black polished and nicely finished but an anglage would have been welcome to match the rest of the movement. Regarding the balance cock, my understanding is that they were "stuck" with th
with unpolished bevels in the lower part of the mainplate. I mean with the vibrations of the machine instead of polished or even softened. That was a "surprise" to me. I had an early Simplicity on the bench and I was rather shocked that the wheel train was the JLC original one, without any finishing
Deliveries will start in April indeed. Prototype was good but with a bit of room for improvements. Hour, minute hands, movement decoration, mass ring, dial... Some dedicated machines were created and had to be set up then mastered. In the meantime, here is a second hand with a before/after. There is
I understand that these days, decoration tends to be associated to a watchmaking skill, however, if there is no technical improvement on the base movement, I don't really call it watchmaking. Decoration and more precisely finishing is definitely an important part of a watch these days. A lot (like a
At school, I learned on 6497 ; 2892 ; 7750. And I am confident that pretty much every watchmaker had the same movements in hands during his studies. However, service will require to have access to spare parts but as long as those brands use ETA manufactured parts, these are widely available.
... the average is made between the balance wheels. They find the average, they synchronize, "on their own". That doesn't change much, it is still an average. So if balance wheels are set +20 and +18s, whether they synchronise or their timing is averaged by the differential, the global timing will s
it gives a good overview of trends. I had the feeling there was more and more laser engraving for decorations such as perlage, cote de geneve... and the quality keeps on increasing year after year. Couple of years ago one could only imagine associating this technology with cheap watches but these da