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Do you mean like a quartz timer? Almost certainly not, but that's not really the point for mechanical watches. Quartz oscillating frequency is like 32k Hz. Go
by Enginerrrd 2y ago
Do you mean like a quartz timer?
Almost certainly not, but that's not really the point for mechanical watches.
Quartz oscillating frequency is like 32k Hz. Good luck getting anything mechanical to operate at those frequencies.
- Animats 2y agoThere was the Bulova Accutron,[1] which used a 360 Hz tuning fork. This was the most accurate watch in the 1960s. Here's high frame rate video of the mechanism.[2] It's an electrically powered tuning fork ratcheting a toothed wheel forward. This is backwards from an escapement clock or watch. Worked fine, used by astronauts, made obsolete by quartz watches. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulova https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulova [2] https://youtu.be/CPS7aNCAwAA?t=194 https://youtu.be/CPS7aNCAwAA?t=194
- xeonmc 2y agoThe gyroscope in your phone is (microelectro)mechanical. Considering that the Rolex in question are using MEMS-based techniques, they might as well go all the way and make an entire movement out of MEMS designs.