By Allen Farmelo and David Flett Allen and David continue their journey through the world of mechanical chronographs. In this episode of ‘How Watches Work’ they discuss flyback chronographs, rattrapante or double chronographs and the race to release the worlds first automatic chronographs. The flyback chronograph is a common variant that combines the stop, reset… Read more »
By Allen Farmelo and David Flett David takes Allen inside the fascinating world of mechanical chronographs, and Allen finally “gets it.” Vertical vs. horizontal clutches, column wheel vs. cam actuators, reset functions, and much more are covered here, leaving the listener with a foundational understanding of mechanical stop watches. The chronograph is a watch complication… Read more »
Our fourth ‘How Watches Work’ podcast is on watch servicing – what it entails and why it is needed. Allen is gunning for vintage watch dealers that advertise their wares as ‘freshly serviced’ while David explains the how to know when watch needs service and what to expect. Watch service is a deep subject and… Read more »
Allen and David sit down in the third installment of the ‘How Watches Work’ series to discuss the subject of torque, what it is and why it is central to the design and operation of any watch, be it quartz or mechanical, simple or complicated. What Is Torque? What is torque? At its simplest, torque… Read more »
In this second installment of the ‘How Watches Work’ series, David joins Allen and leads him through the gears that make your mechanical watches work, generally known as “the going train.” By the end they’ve imagined complications that track time on Mercury, Jupiter and Mars The going train is the main set, or train, of… Read more »
In this episode, Allen and David finally go beyond the dial and start discussing how watches work. Well, that was the intention but David insists on starting at the beginning…