Unfortunately watch repair shops are few and far between these days and most can not handle the complexity of a vintage mechanical movement. The best one I’ve worked with is just north of ...

The fourth prototype is being made using the Chinese movement PT5000, which is based on the ETA2824-2. The parts are carefully assembled using fishing line as a support. This is the fourth prototype.

A movement is a set of mechanisms made of many moving mechanical parts.It is also known as a caliber of a clock or watch.A clockwork movement or motor is made of many moving parts precisely engineered ...

Digital vs analogue watches: Accuracy A vital difference between digital and analogue (or quartz and mechanical) watches is their ability to keep time. A quartz movement is more accurate, despite ...

To mark its 30th birthday, Swatch has produced an automatic mechanical watch movement with exactly 51 parts, the same number of components used in the company's first quartz timepiece.

Switzerland’s largest watch maker, Swatch, must abide by a 2013 deal to slowly phase out the delivery of mechanical watch movements to rivals and not sell excess stock to new customers, the ...

Computer scientist and watchmaking enthusiast Nicholas Manousos has created a printable version of the tourbillon watch movement called Tourbillon 1000%. Fabricated from thermoplastic and ball ...

Mechanical watches with automatic winding feature a rotating weight (a rotor) that pivots when the watch moves around — i.e., when you wear it and move your wrist. As it spins, it winds the spring.

Back in 2013, Swatch Group made an achievement that remains unmatched today: it produced a Swiss-made automatic watch movement entirely through an automated assembly process. It did so by pairing down ...