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  2. Automatic watch - Wikipedia

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    An automatic watch, also known as a self-winding watch or simply an automatic, is a mechanical watch where the natural motion of the wearer provides energy to wind the mainspring, making manual winding unnecessary if worn enough. [ 1] It is distinguished from a manual watch in that a manual watch must have its mainspring wound by hand at ...

  3. Mechanical watch - Wikipedia

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    A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves. A mechanical watch is driven by a mainspring which ...

  4. Balance wheel - Wikipedia

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    The spiral balance spring is visible at top. A balance wheel, or balance, is the timekeeping device used in mechanical watches and small clocks, analogous to the pendulum in a pendulum clock. It is a weighted wheel that rotates back and forth, being returned toward its center position by a spiral torsion spring, known as the balance spring or ...

  5. Tourbillon - Wikipedia

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    Tourbillon. In horology, a tourbillon ( / tʊərˈbɪljən /; French: [tuʁbijɔ̃] "whirlwind") is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement to increase accuracy. Conceived by the British watchmaker and inventor John Arnold, it was developed by his friend the Swiss-French watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet and patented by Breguet on 26 ...

  6. Pallet fork - Wikipedia

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    The pallet fork is above the balance wheel in this watch movement. The pallet fork is a component of the lever escapement of a mechanical watch. [ 1] The pallet fork and the lever form one component that sits between the escape wheel and the balance wheel. Its purpose is to lock the escape wheel, and release it one tooth at a time at each swing ...

  7. Chinese standard movement - Wikipedia

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    Once the most commonly produced mechanical/automatic watch movements in China, the numbers produced and their quality (at least for a majority of produced movements) have since declined significantly; today the movement lives on typically in simple (even crude) automatic and skeletonized (i.e. using hollowed-out parts and segments such that the ...

  8. Miyota (watch movement manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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    Miyota produces various 'standard' and 'premium' grade mechanical movements for automatic wristwatches.. The Miyota 8215 is an entry level [[hack watch-latest versions|non-hacking-earlier versions ] twenty-one jewel three-hand with date automatic wristwatch movement with a uni-directional winding system (left rotation) with an accuracy of -20 to +40 seconds per day, and a power reserve of over ...

  9. Wheel train - Wikipedia

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    Wheel train. In horology, a wheel train (or just train) is the gear train of a mechanical watch or clock. [ 1] Although the term is used for other types of gear trains, the long history of mechanical timepieces has created a traditional terminology for their gear trains which is not used in other applications of gears .

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