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Wow, that is truly amazing, are there large versions of the gyrotourbillon out of interest, as in for a clock.
by anfractuosity 9y ago
Wow, that is truly amazing, are there large versions of the gyrotourbillon out of interest, as in for a clock.
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- SamReidHughes 9y agoThe thing about clocks is, they sit in only one position, so there's no justification for a tourbillon, which averages out the errors caused by change of position.
- anfractuosity 9y agoWasn't one of the first tourbillon mechanisms in a carriage clock though? I thought this was pretty cool regarding tourbillons: http://www.laimer.ch/laimer_tourbillon http://www.laimer.ch/laimer_tourbillon I'm not sure what that would be classed as though. Edit: Oh, doh, I misunderstood you, yeah I see what you mean
- SamReidHughes 9y agoYeah, that would make sense. And (googles) you can get a tourbillon clock in your carriage today -- if your carriage is a Bentley Bentayga.
- anfractuosity 9y agoHaha, awesome. Since the tourbillon spring mechanism seems to be constantly rotated with the gyro version, I wonder if there is another way to mechanically keep the tourbillon always level?
- yoz-y 9y agoWouldn’t that render it useless though? The purpose of tourbillon is specifically to cancel the effect gravity has on watches or clocks that are stationary. This was a problem with pocket watches that had a mechanism always in the same direction. Tourbillons in wrist watches are largely only for decorative purpose as the hands move and thus the gravity effect averages out.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoSome number of tiny swinging weights could be used to establish the direction of gravity and the escapement could be slowly rotated until it's perpendicular to that direction. Edit: Or let the escapement hang. There's probably reasons why that's difficult.