Remove the back of even the simplest mechanical timepiece, and the mechanism you see inside looks impossibly complicated. This mechanism, known as the movement, is typically made up of 200 or more individual parts, most assembled manually in a workshop by someone with very steady hands. So, to understand what's really going on, we took a look at the six complications that represent the height of the horological craft. The Complications May 30th - The chronograph, which stops time. May 31st - The...
Remove the back of even the simplest mechanical timepiece, and the mechanism you see inside looks impossibly complicated. This mechanism, known as the movement, is typically made up of 200 or more individual parts, most assembled manually in a workshop by someone with very steady hands. So, to understand what's really going on, we took a look at the six complications that represent the height of the horological craft. The Complications May 30th - The chronograph, which stops time. May 31st - The...
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