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From times past

Yoda wrote:From times past

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Beautiful!

Approximate date of fabrication?

Emilio wrote: ↑October 9th, 2018, 2:54 pm

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Beautiful!

Approximate date of fabrication?

Around 1640-1650. I should perhaps have written that the bridges are made of gold...

I made the chain myself, but it was a long time ago. It looks like a miniature bike chain, a real pain in the ass to rivet, and say no more about the hooks for the barrel and fusee. I used to be a frenetic enthusiast, but I have settled a little since then.

M, you are a mad scientist

Unbelievable skills

hako wrote: ↑October 9th, 2018, 3:16 pm M, you are a mad scientist

Unbelievable skills

I still do get excited about certain things.

Keep up the spirit

Fusee mechanism?

mykeos wrote: ↑October 9th, 2018, 4:54 pm Fusee mechanism?

Yes, driven by a chain.

Yoda wrote: ↑October 9th, 2018, 5:20 pm

mykeos wrote: ↑October 9th, 2018, 4:54 pm Fusee mechanism?

Yes, driven by a chain.

Yes,interesting mechanism,I read about it on wiki when you mentioned making the chain earlier in this thread More than half a millenia old principle - "Perhaps no problem in mechanics has ever been solved so simply and so perfectly."(White, Lynn Jr. (1966). Medieval Technology and Social Change)

I think I found my grail watch...

Gronefeld Remontoire 1941..."The watch houses the company's in-house remontoire movement, Caliber G-05, which is a hand-wound mechanical caliber with a wonderful architecture, a 36-hour power reserve, and a frequency of 21,600 vph. It demonstrates the brothers' preoccupation with depth and light, or rather, the way light interacts with surfaces."