How Does a Mechanical Watch Work? (11 Watches Shown)

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If you watched our recent beginner’s guide, you’ll remember that we touched briefly on how a mechanical watch worked-in a quick, but ultimately oversimplified way. If that left you unsatisfied and hungry to learn more, well, your time has come, because how on Earth does a mechanical watch work, anyway?
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Patek Philippe 5170J
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A. Lange & Söhne Saxonia Datograph Perpetual 410.038
A. Lange & Söhne Saxonia Thin 201.027
A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Chronograph Boutique Edition 414.026
A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Referenzuhr 230.032
Rolex Submariner 116613 LN
Breguet Tradition 7027BA/11/9V6
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Baltic HMS 002
Baltic BICOMPAX 002
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@watchfinder Жыл бұрын

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@vincent67239 2 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you return back to the basics from time to time to bring in new people into the world of watches.

@davidnievesjr.9478 2 жыл бұрын

We love how well you explain the inner workings of the various watches you showcase. I would love to see how a quartz watch works and how it counts 20,000+ vibrations each second for years at a time.

@Elies313E 2 жыл бұрын

Watch Steve Mould's video on Quartz Watches, he explains their inner workings very well and withouth makinng it boring. I already knew how they worked and ended learning new stuff.

@jack002tuber 2 жыл бұрын

There is nothing more sublime and satisfying than observing a watch escapement in action. It's wonderfully made

@vktravellog1242 2 жыл бұрын

Yea I can stare at it all day! The finishing was also spectacular!

@myduckwatch6404 Жыл бұрын

Yes there is something hypnotic about it

@chimnibff 2 жыл бұрын

would love to see a video that explains the math and mechanisms behind various complications like perpetual calendars.

@mcgitarz 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant explanation of Switzerland’s favorite little engine. Love your work. Bravo!!

@Watcheyes 2 жыл бұрын

Mechanical watches is some of humanity's genial work that is very complicated but stil has a very logically construction. Just wonderful.

@charleshermetix3886 2 жыл бұрын

Hazzah for this..my growing (and frankly,bit scary)watch obsession is propelled ever forward every time i look down and just MARVEL at the miracle of this tiny thing telling me the time minute after minute with nothing but gears,bits of metal and energy. Im trying to convey this miracle the best way i can every time im asked about the obsession, i cant understand why ppl arent more amazed. "You realise theres no battery in this thing right?FFS DUDE..NO BATTERY!!GET IT??"

@danny_davis 2 жыл бұрын

If could give this video several likes I would. Your explanation of how the energy is controlled and released was excellent. Thank you! 🧠👍

@agnesf2659 2 жыл бұрын

I find myself being like a small child watching this wonderful clip with eyes wide open. Mechanical watches seem to be great toys!

@thecianinator 2 жыл бұрын

They really are though

@iwnl_vale 2 жыл бұрын

They're the coolest ones arround

@tesmat1243 2 жыл бұрын

They don't seem they are

@Carlos-nq7up 2 жыл бұрын

They are incredible and beautiful machines.

@phillipmeacham 2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for something like this! For a fan of the art, this was great. Thank you

@curtbrown7718 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You made all this very understandable.

@StevenScholten 2 жыл бұрын

Great video thanks for making it!

@tobiensam 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the lesson

@slick4401 2 жыл бұрын

I loved the video. Please make more like these.

@hawkeye454 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video....beautiful watches, great explanation.

@alvinmick218 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video thank you 😊

@NeilDas 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks bud!

@LobsterRavioli 2 жыл бұрын

These are the videos I love. I love a bit of a historical context in videos.

@JEROMEGELB 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation! Thank you! It may seem basic to some but is a revelation to me!

@anthonystevens8683 2 жыл бұрын

A very good explanation of the need for an escapement to govern the release of the main spring so it doesn't just go 'ping' and flick all the hands off. I would be intersting from a mechanical view to understand the differences between the Swiss lever, George Daniels Coaxial and the Frederique Constant Monolithic oscillator versions with the pro's and cons of each.

@WarpFactor999 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU for the "standard" presentation style! Such wonderful photography with stunning commentary! Well done!

@amolaksinghsunnerd4999 2 жыл бұрын

Simply brilliant 👏

@anonymoushuman8962 2 жыл бұрын

This is actually very educational, informative and interesting. This is good content!

@kristiangustafson4130 2 жыл бұрын

I suggested you do something like this a while back. Glad to see such a classy execution.

@DonCarso 2 жыл бұрын

All your videos rock. Even when I know the content of the video I still watch it. Great job

@ashrquan 2 жыл бұрын

Finally, someone explain this in simplified way ,, Thanks

@GuyVanderAa 2 жыл бұрын

Great video 👍

@Jdario134 2 жыл бұрын

love your videos

@kernicterus1233 2 жыл бұрын

Loved that, thanks. And big thanks for part-exchanging 2 of my watches to help get my 3rd Bremont - yes I am a big fan.

@fourlakes 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great video for anyone interested in watches and how they work. Now, time to hit repeat and watch again...

@waltersvandermerwe5310 2 жыл бұрын

Great video…thanks.

@Number_006 2 жыл бұрын

Well done, thank you!

@Robert-vw3od 2 жыл бұрын

Superb video from good people, it's not just about influence to buy a product, it's education. Well done guys.

@MrJonesGallagher 2 жыл бұрын

This video is so good that I intent to use it for my English class. Top job, as usual 👌

@nickhart958 2 жыл бұрын

Absolute class 👏👏👏

@HarshaYadav 2 жыл бұрын

This is wonderful 👍🏽

@babelinfocalypse8118 2 жыл бұрын

More watch explanation videos like this please!

@bianconero6617 2 жыл бұрын

Absolute perfection

@geoffwatches 2 жыл бұрын

I know all of this, and knew I would, but still watched it because I enjoy the format.

@stevenbriandunn5648 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Grumpini 2 жыл бұрын

Ayyy an actual video

@ilynpayne7491 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@yarinsheiman7789 2 жыл бұрын

A truly fantastic video! I'd be vey happy to see a "How it's made" video from you guys in collaboration with Certina or Omega for example...

@gcarlo8665 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice! I’d like to see co-axial escapement explained so clearly! Still struggling to wrap my head around it

@HussainAlkumaish 2 жыл бұрын

Glorious B-Roll..

@rocketdyneF1 2 жыл бұрын

I’d like to see a video about the coaxial escapement.

@user-zz6iv2ou6f 2 жыл бұрын

Your engineer is showing. And it’s brilliant.

@MrAumbra 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent simplified explanation of a beautifully complex mechanism. One of the many reasons I enjoy exhibition case backs on my pieces. It’s a shame Rolex won’t do it.

@vktravellog1242 2 жыл бұрын

Looking at the rolex movement I think its better covered 😂😂😂😂😂

@djisar-official 2 жыл бұрын

Would love if you could cover Nomos's proprietary escapement at some point and explain the difference between that and a regular escapement, it's something I don't quite understand. Thanks, great video!

@VietNguyen-pw1gz 2 жыл бұрын

The Nomos escapement doesn‘t differ from a swiss lever escapement in its function and working.

@djisar-official 2 жыл бұрын

@@VietNguyen-pw1gz what is "proprietary" and if the answer is nothing, what is and what is the purpose of their escarpment patent?

@djisar-official 2 жыл бұрын

@@VietNguyen-pw1gz Or maybe to simplify the question: What is the Nomos swing system? Because it sure sounds different from a regular escapement on their site, they have a patent on it, but I can't understand how it's any different?

@eliasblessing2554 2 жыл бұрын

I think you might be a little confused here. So what they did was basically develop a mechanism that does exactly the same thing like other escapements, but like, from scratch. What most watch companies do is buy the parts for the escapement from other manufacturers that each developed their own escapement mechanism and own the patent for that. Nomos designed and makes all of the parts they build inside of their watch movements from scratch so they didn't need to be dependent on other manufacturers. Also, the Nomos Swing System is actually the whole unit of balance wheel and escapement.

@djisar-official 2 жыл бұрын

@@eliasblessing2554 Great, thank you that makes a lot of sense!

@anassadi87 2 жыл бұрын

the water bucket metaphor is spectacular.. I finally understand how the spring motion is controlled

@arashefi 2 жыл бұрын

I know that it’s silly, but that’s why I love your channel.

@wisamal-hakim5531 2 жыл бұрын

Superb

@jimmurphy6095 2 жыл бұрын

The eye candy on display in this video is just magnificent...

@enzoguet5690 2 жыл бұрын

Finally a video explaining how a balance wheel works!

@tonihasler7772 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure, if you have done it already, but if not, I would love an explanation of Chronographs. Love your videos. :)

@danieljas2963 2 жыл бұрын

Great video ! Maybe it’s an idea to make videos like this explaining other complications ? How on earth does work.. perpetual calendar / turbilion / minute repeater.

@slowlesaca8634 2 жыл бұрын

How about a video explaining the role of regular servicing for mechanical timepieces? (and why the industry is moving to replace watchmakers with disposable components)

@jasonp6908 2 жыл бұрын

briliant

@terrysky83 2 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant. Perhaps talk about water resistance rating in one the video

@alexito9213 2 жыл бұрын

I love this technical videos and I would like to see more of it. Like who does the jumping second really work. But I fully understand that this might not catch enough viewers which is essential for you 😐

@xiubinchee7383 2 жыл бұрын

I have to give this video a like for it's clear explanation using animation of water bucket to make it easier for layman to understand.

@jaytoledo4728 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a video with a in-depth review of the most popular complication. Chrono, day, date , annual , perpetual calendar, minute repeaters etc.

@neilmartin7776 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to see more videos like this, explaining the mechanics behind these wonderful creations. One thing I've long been interested to know is how the watch keeps ticking as it winds. If the unwinding spring powers the gears to move the hands, and the gears are all interconnected to the spring barrel (which in turn is fixed to the spring), how do the gears keep turning even as the spring is being wound in the opposite direction to which it unwinds?

@abcdefgh-db1to 2 жыл бұрын

It's because it's not being wound in the opposite direction to which it unwinds. The barrell is made of two concentric parts linked by the spring. One part is connected to the gear train and the other to the winding system, so when you wind, you don't remove torque from the gear train. You can clearly see how it works on a pocket watch

@ok0573 2 жыл бұрын

Hi,could you do a video on the maurice laxcroix aikon tide? It seems to me,like it deserves to be seen more,for what it is. Best Regards

@neamanames7111 Жыл бұрын

My fiancé and I watched (haha pun) this video together and we both really loved the visual!!! Really cool to see how a watch works ^-^

@zararsattar9557 Жыл бұрын

@kamil4149 2 жыл бұрын

You could make a video on all of the different complications, how they work and how to operate them.

@Bwill-hn2pc 2 жыл бұрын

Cool.

@vktravellog1242 2 жыл бұрын

Do one on the grand seiko spring drive please.

@vincentmagot-cuvru5989 2 жыл бұрын

really intersting and, as always, beautiful. Love watches but I still have a question that even Google is mute about : what determines the speed of a caliber ? why do we have various frequencies ? regards

@TheAechBomb 2 жыл бұрын

it's determined by a few things; the mass of the balance wheel (more mass slows it down), the spring (longer springs slow it down) and the gearing of the movement, they must be geared to match the frequency of the escapement.

@AvroBellow 2 жыл бұрын

Please feature the Tissot Seastar 2000 Professional, thank you.

@tunnyvandepol7816 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent start. Let’s get into jewel bearings and vibrations per hour. Maybe explore something exotic like rattrapante detail inside the case. Turn up the watch geek factor.

@rtbinc2273 2 жыл бұрын

How anything works would be great - helpful - I know. What are the machines that are used to make these things. How do you make these very tiny precise things. I saw a reference to a Rose Engine that is used in making watches.

@humblewiz4953 2 жыл бұрын

*this content is what we want other than those $1million RM's*

@JulianGoetz1 2 жыл бұрын

can you do this with slow motion clips? i feel like this video didn’t deliver the last mile idea conversion from the water bucket metaphor into the actual lever escapement. also, show us the lever escapement actually getting pushed by the mainspring please!

@Aaarumman 2 жыл бұрын

Spirit Zulu Time by Longines. Bought it quite recently so it better be positive.

@XSXXL 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a more in depth- & more visually detailed explanation. E.g. showing different parts of the watch (animated?) and what they are used for. Thanks for this little trip into the watch though!

@thomasderouin72 2 жыл бұрын

Please explain the tourbillion in depth!!

@chubbylegend 2 жыл бұрын

You and Tom are overdue a wee chat about the PRX Chrono.

@Louen_Leoncoeur 2 жыл бұрын

Montblanc sport 7035 diver 200m please... 🙏🏽🙏🏽

@barfymann362 2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Hands has touched more watches than a Rolex watchmaker.

@michele_ 2 жыл бұрын

3:52 watch name?

@vktravellog1242 2 жыл бұрын

What about the precision it takes to make the watch accurate with actual tolerances and how each lets say micrometer difference equals to a loss of a second a day as an example.

@Jordandagostino 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to know how a chronostop works compared to a chronograph

@kyproset 2 жыл бұрын

Yes please, back to the basics.

@c.l.8630 5 ай бұрын

please make a video explaining how to use a bezel rule of a pilot´{s watch

@TheMextremez 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I love your channel so much until I am loving the background music of your videos. Does anyone know the background music? 😂

@bigsarge2085 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@kacsito88 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure that the hour gets the torque from the minute, and the minute gets it from the seconds gear, which has to be regulated by the escapement. Not the other way around.

@panaceiasuberes6464 2 жыл бұрын

Can we have one of these "How a watch works" featuring the Zenith Inventor?

@jjhead431 2 жыл бұрын

There's an excellent film from the 50's(?) made by Hamilton watch, about the watch movement. It's on this very same tube of you's.

@hankcohen3419 2 жыл бұрын

How about doing an episode on the Zenith Rainbow Flyback?

@dasithfernando36 2 жыл бұрын

perpetual calendar movement and how the whole thing works.

@mostafaesmail3674 2 жыл бұрын

could anyone suggest a book or a source to understand physics and maths behind mechanical watches?

@slowlesaca8634 2 жыл бұрын

Theory of Horology by Charles-André Reymondin

@mostafaesmail3674 2 жыл бұрын

@@slowlesaca8634 thank you

@aimanbryan1424 2 жыл бұрын

What about all the complications and how they work?

@djisar-official 2 жыл бұрын

Oh and why is the pallet fork always ruby? Why not sapphire or diamond on a very high end watch? Watches seem to have ruby pallet forks (and the jewels to hold the movement to the case) from a couple hundred bucks watch up to a couple hundred thousand buck watch?

@MJFallout 2 жыл бұрын

Ruby and sapphire are in fact the same mineral: Corundum. In turn, it is nothing rare as far its elements are concerned, it's crystalline aluminium oxide (Al^2O^3) The trace elements present obviously change the color, and there are many more colors for it than just ruby red and sapphire blue, but I believe they can't alter the physical properties in any way, so it should be all the same. (Not with diamond though, of course)

@djisar-official 2 жыл бұрын

@@MJFallout thanks for the explanation! I'm even more curious now why they are all ruby red then? From your explanation it seems like they should be able to use any color corundum? It it just industry standard to use ruby color?

@djisar-official 2 жыл бұрын

@@MJFallout I looked this up: "Scientifically speaking, rubies and sapphires are the same mineral (corundum). Both are made of alumina and oxygen, but they just differ in color. When a corundum is red, it is classified as a ruby, and when it's blue, it is called a sapphire." -- So my question is, why the red rubies over sapphire colors?