What is the principle of a mechanical watch

What is the principle of mechanical watch

What is the principle of mechanical watch? I believe that we are not unfamiliar with mechanical watches, many people use watches that are mechanical watches, many people are curious about the principle of mechanical watches. I have collected and organized the information about what is the principle of mechanical watch for you, come together to understand it.

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Composition of mechanical watches

Mechanical watches are composed of movement and appearance parts. The movement includes the transmission system, the prime mover system, the upper bar toggle pin system, the escapement regulator system, the pointer system, the movement parts are assembled together by the plywood with screws; the appearance parts are composed of the case, the dial, the watch pin, the watch band and other parts. The operation of the clock is the use of the principle of leverage, as if swinging back and forth like repetition, the most basic order of operation is by the clockwork → center wheel → third wheel → fourth wheel → escapement wheel → horse → balance wheel, and then the balance wheel of the reaction force of the horse will be bounced back to the original position of a kind of simple harmonic movement.

Principle of Manual Mechanical Watch

The upper bar, toggle mechanism: the main role is to transfer the external force to the original movement mechanism, the clockwork is tightened, generating the potential energy, so that the mechanical watch rotation has power.

Primary mechanism: the primary mechanism mainly consists of the hairspring, bar box wheel, bar box cover, the hairspring is the elastic element to store the torque, driving the balance wheel to swing continuously.

Transmission mechanism: It is composed of some gear shafts and gear pieces, which drive the torque of the prime mover to the escapement speed regulator, and drive the pointer displacement rotation.

The escapement speed regulator: using the escapement of the escapement wheel teeth and fork tile escapement action, the clockwork torque is transmitted to the speed regulator component, the clockwork torque is relaxed at the same speed.

Hands: The seconds, minutes and hours hands make up the chronograph.

The above five parts of the mechanism **** the same composition of the manual mechanical watch working principle.

Principle of Automatic Mechanical Watches

Automatic Mechanical Watches are a modification of Manual Mechanical Watches, with an oscillating weight added to the watch; the 'oscillating weight' inside the watch can be rotated by the ETA 2840 automatic movement due to the wrist's activity when it is worn and the effect of winding up is achieved. In general, automatic mechanical watches still retain the function of manual winding, in other words, the crown can still be turned to wind the watch, only some cheaper automatic mechanical movements, such as Seiko's 7S26, 7S36 and ETA's 2842, will omit this function. And since the movement of the wrist winds the watch continuously, automatic mechanical watches have a function to prevent over-tightening of the winding to avoid damage to the winding. However, the emergence of automatic mechanical watches has not completely replaced manual mechanical watches, only that there are now more automatic mechanical watches than manual mechanical watches.

In recent years, there have been a lot of improvements in automatic mechanical watches, such as Seiko's Kinetic watch, which is still based on the principle that the wrist's activity causes the oscillating weight to rotate and generate electricity.

The automatic mechanical watch is based on the ordinary mechanical watch, increased part of the automatic mechanism device, through the role of the wearer in daily life arm movement automatic winding. It is an automatic watch with the word "AUTOMATIC" printed on the dial. In the automatic mechanism, the weight (automatic oscillating weight) swings, and this special function of automatic winding is realized by linking the automatic winding wheel system and the original movement system.

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How to wind a mechanical watch

Mechanical watch winding method: rotate the shank 20-30 times, so that the winding of the clockwork is initially wound.

A fully wound watch can usually run for about 30 hours or more, up to eight days or more. If the watch is to run constantly, care should be taken to keep it wound up at all times; however, over-winding can cause damage to the watch, so it is usually recommended to wind it up only once a day, or even at the same time every day, as the temperature at different times of the day will have an effect on the winding, which will maintain the watch better.

How to Maintain a Mechanical Watch

1. When you wear a watch, the sweat on your hands is corrosive to the case, and you should often wipe the case with a soft cloth. When not wearing a watch, it should be padded with a plastic watch rest.

2, do not open the back cover of the watch at will, so as to avoid dust entering the movement affecting the normal work of the watch, if there is such an operation during the joint warranty period, it will affect the warranty service you should enjoy in the authorized repair point.

3, do not put the watch in a closet with mothballs to avoid deterioration of the watch oil.

4. Don't put the watch on the equipment with strong magnetic field such as cell phone, stereo, TV, etc., so as not to be magnetized to affect the accuracy of timekeeping.

5, long-term storage does not wear the watch, should be regularly wound up once a month; so that the parts are not in a static state for a long time, to ensure that the operation of the watch movement lubrication.

6, ordinary mechanical watch by the tide, available dry cotton pressure on the watch, and then baked with a light bulb for 5 minutes, the table in the moisture can be evaporated out. For serious damp watches can be appropriate to extend the time of moisture absorption.

7, sleep, do not wear a watch, especially the luminous watch, there is a certain amount of radium radiation, before going to bed must be taken off.

8, do not adjust the time between 9:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m., which is easy to cause damage to the watch and the calendar jumps incorrectly. In addition, the watch in the time to adjust the Hou need to dial clockwise, do not dial counterclockwise, counterclockwise dialing the watch is easy to cause the watch needle pointing deviation (quartz two-needle type should be counterclockwise dialing). Also affects the accuracy of the watch.

9, pay attention to the waterproof type of the watch you wear, avoid water, avoid wearing a watch to sauna. Even if it is a diving watch, if the sealing ring aging will also be the same water seepage,

10, to save the watch box, the box can give the watch the most secure protection in the usual do not wear.