Tag: Uncomplicate complications
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Uncomplicate complications – Power reserve
The power reserve indicator serves well in manually-wound watches by showing the time left until the next winding.
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Uncomplicate complications – Perpetual calendar
Building a perpetual calendar that knows which year we’re in and whether it is leap or not demands exceptional engineering skills.
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Uncomplicate complications – Tourbillon
Complications have a unique meaning in the field of watchmaking. The properties of mechanical watches, not including the hour-minute-second hands, are known as complications.
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Uncomplicate complications – Finishing #2
The second part of the finishing methods covers the mirror and black polish techniques.
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Uncomplicate complications – Finishing #1
Abrasive roughening finishing techniques in brief: satin finish, perlage, linear graining and snailing.
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Uncomplicate complications – Geneva stripes
“Geneva stripes” or “Côtes de Genève” is one of the most widely-used decoration techniques in high-level movements.
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Uncomplicate complications – Anglage
In part 3 of Uncomplicate complications we learn a few things about “anglage”.
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Uncomplicate complications – Movements
Aaron Becsei is an independent watchmaker, and member of Académie Horlogére des Créaturs Indépendants. He guides me with the experts’ knowledge through the secrets of fine watchmaking. In the series of Uncomplicate Complications we discover the seeds of uniqueness, art and value in a timepiece.…
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Uncomplicate complications – Entrée
Looking at watches purely from the aspect of their purpose, they are meant to measure time. On the next level, when you think of them as a fashion item and accessory, they become a messenger of self-expression, matching your clothes or mood. As such, time…