Tech Tock: Cartier, the luxury of the crisis, and ID Two clock concept

Everyone loves the stories and history of luxury base is remarkably constant: crafts, return the preservation of traditional knowledge, continuity in the method, if possible, for decades (When he gets older, c ' is even better) If you have a luxury brand you mess with this story definition at their own risk. This is true for all luxury brands, but personally I think it is mostly for luxury watchmakers. The strand is that the hand of man working at a scale almost supernatural tiny wonders of skills. In what seems at his best as a miniature universe for centuries, the magic of the watch was to comment on brass, steel and jewelry used as storage for gear, and they take small pieces of art that seemed to even the pulse of the universe itself.

Burst quartz replica watches in this elegant air like a bull in a china shop, but the truth is, until 1969, when Seiko was the first quartz clock for sale on Christmas Day had more high-tech watch has been for years. Post-quartz, mechanical watches is kept alive by re-imagining themselves regardless executed a set of luxury even if it is a business, the cynic will more than respect, truth, a disproportionate number stores of luxury watches is always the appointment of the amount of hand assembly and hand finishing, which is a true high-end clock is impressive, and the techniques are often those who like a watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, whose clients are people like Marie Antoinette would have immediately recognized.

That is why for concept Cartier replica watches are inspiring and disturbing.

How can you make the most accurate mechanical clock from a blank sheet of paper: Now, ID and the ID One concept watch two following questions Cartier crack development team (led by Carole Forestier remarkable) is a simple question? To understand how they came up with the answers she made id is a two-time measure and nothing less than himself understood.

A watch or clock is essentially a simple thing. It is a word oscillator, a pendulum, which suggests a number of times per second. This is a power supply that the pendulum a push, so it does not vibrate to stop. It's a funny thing called inhibition into account both the number of beats, and provides the impetus for a time, and there are gears that turn the hands display the time.

For this to work, you need an oscillator that is always hit exactly the same number of times per second, no matter what. Maintain an ideal would have the same rate regardless of fluctuations in the power supply, temperature, air pressure, magnetic fields or other disturbing influences. A pendulum works very well for some reason not even understand simple but important: gravity always tried to come up with a force exactly proportional to how much you push to relax. This means that when there are power fluctuations, a pendulum is still shut.

Now, this is all theory, and the theory is fine, but what happened in reality, not so easy. Changing the length of the pendulum rod when the temperature changes; watch with this through the use of special alloys, temperature invariant vibration from external sources, a shuttle disrupt the rate of treaties (. A is the so- called great, logically, Invar) watchmakers addresses the problem of physical their clocks isolated from the outside world, often built underground, temperature controlled room on a solid foundation. Changes in air pressure, the influence of exchange rate could drag a pendulum clock set their watch in the huge vacuum cylinder.

The results were good. Damn Good. The best clocks has never been long forgotten memory Shortt clocks and grandchildren Synchrome, swung in a pendulum with Invar 14 pounds inside a vacuum tank copper. Built between 1920-1940, they were almost incredibly precise, were the best with an accuracy of about one second every 12 years.

Now the problem is of course that one. Shortt no clock on your wrist The big difference is that the clock can not be physically isolated and immobilized. A pendulum in a wristwatch is a stupid idea obviously (at least, dear reader, I hope it is clear), watchmakers have therefore, in the last centuries, uses a circular equilibrium. Inhibition of the balance is a shock, and a helical spring (spiral or equilibrium), which is fixed to the hub of the scale represents the force of gravity. As a mathematically perfect spring does not have exactly the same weight, that is to push as hard as it has grown, and with the mass balance, make a natural resonant frequency of the oscillator, clock, in theory, should keep time and best grandfather clock.

Ah, the theory, we hardly knew you. Shaken by the shock, affected by gravity, and the balance to the difference of gravity vulnerable to fluctuations in the strength of the temperature, magnetism, aging and thousands of other natural disasters of the clock is the legacy of poor show even the best mechanical wrist watch is a damn fine specimen indeed, if it can hold both considered in a few seconds per day. So this is the problem: how do you get your wrist? And how should we try to do an identity crisis in the watch?

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