Wednesday, February 09, 2022

How A Mechanical Watch Works Video...


How A Mechanical Watch Works

Ever wonder how a mechanical watch works? These videos offers a fascinating understanding and insight that answers that questions. This first video offers a modern perspective on the mechanics of how a watch works. In the future, I want to produce some videos on how Rolex movements work, with a series named "Inside Rolex Watches". So an example would be "Inside the Rolex Daytona." For the mean time these videos will have to do...


Next up we have some retro videos produced by the Hamilton Watch Company back in 1949 and 1947. The first film describes how a mechanical watch works, and the second video is titled "What makes a watch fine?"


It is fascinating to note that before World War II, the United States was a watchmaking powerhouse (as witnessed with the video below from Hamilton Watch, but after the war, Switzerland dominated, followed later by Japan.