How Does a Watch Work with No Battery? | Watchfinder & Co.
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025
- The battery in your phone will last you about a day before you need to charge it, same with your smart watch. That energy is depleted through use, as you would expect, and when it runs out, you need to add some more. With a mechanical watch, however, there’s not a volt or amp of electricity to be seen. How is that possible?
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What a fantastic framing of the question. I love how this channel never explains anything by just laying out the facts and cranking them out. Everything is part of a story.
Among the best channels on YT, hands down!
@@wvlfboyy oh yeah!
A wonderfull teacher with imagination👍
@@DrZbo السلام عليكم
@@رضوانصالخ-ح9ق English translation?
When you know the answer but just want to hear him talk about it
Yea I thought to myself, you're preaching to the converted but hey, let's watch this anyway, the footage is too amazing to waste.
yeah anyone who didn't know the answer are idiots
Yep
@@kentatakao6863 Or perhaps new to mechanical watch world, not mechanically minded, young enough to not have much experience, etc.
Be nicer.
with his strange kind of voice .. that become disturbing after some time
This might be a bit odd comment, but thank you. I just stumbled on this channel, and I've been looking at the videos, and they made me really happy. :3
My grandpa used to be a clocksmith, and when I was a kid, we would sometimes go to see him into his shop where he fixed clocks, made carvings to things, and sold clocks and jewelry. Everything that left there as a gift was packed into this mustard yellow paper with flowers, tied with brown, copperish ribbon, but no tape anywhere, he would make the folds so sharp and tight he didn't need any tape. Everywhere there was tick and tock and when the time was half, or any full hour the whole shop went BOM and CUC-KOO and BIM or sometimes there where even clocks that made music box sounds. I even remember the smell, even though I can't describe it very well, for me ,it has always just been the "clock scent."
Grandpa also did weekends in this museum type of thing where there are old-timey houses and they show living back in a day, and there he was too showing how clocksmithing happens. He was a master in his trade, and even then, there weren't too many people doing that anymore. When he retired, his workbench and everything moved first to their house, where he still had a room full of clocks, and I would sit there, while he sang to himself and worked on clocks of friends and those who had found him specifically to fix their broken clocks and watches. I think that workbench is now in my dad's garage, it's been sitting there since grandpa first went with granda to live in a retirement home. Even there, his room had several clocks in it, say BOM, TICK, CUCKOO, BIM, and whatever else. And as long as I remember, he always had that one golden wristwatch. I think he might not have had another one as long as I lived. I got my very first watch from him. One with a teddy in the middle, I learned to read time from that.
I remember he saw my son before he passed away, but not my daughter, so I take it has been about 9 years since. For me, grandpa's workshop was always like magic, and it makes me kinda sad I can't share that magic with my children anymore. So for a sentimental fool like me, I feel it's amazing there are still people and companies and interest groups and whatnot that keep the traditions and knowledge alive and well in their own way that fits the requirements of the time. ^^
I wish you all the best, keep it up.
Thanks very much for the story Loli Byte :)
Thank you for making me nostalgic for a memory that I have never lived
This Breguet is amazing, love the dial.
Enjoyed that, there is something romantic about having a little machine on your wrist that doesn't require any batteries.
Replacing batteries every two years is also fucking annoying. My Victorinox Infantry 38mm eats them up in no time whilst my SKX013 is still chugging along without issues.
Nothing beats a G shock Solar for continuous power supply.
@@shino8854 What will you do under ground with your solar power supply?
@@irkenpost charge it with a torch
@@irkenpost Nothing, go up to the surface, when I am done being underground.
What will you do being under ground if there is no light, how can you read the watch face 🤦♂️
These videos are the best bedtime stories. One always goes to sleep with something to ponder upon. Thank you!
Such a great comment, fits perfectly with the channel and video, the music, visually, everythings amazing
Never thought about it that way.. bedtime stories for adults.
Elegant engineering that has stood the test of time.
"will last about a day"
laughs in iphone turning off at 13%
Rafael Akapohi if you live in the USA they’re still doing cheap battery replacements at Apple
Breguet 7027. My favorite breguet for its sheer simplicity and honesty. It’s a watch for the mechanical watch lover with everything on display front and center. What a great time piece!
Love this. Watching it over just to see that Beautiful Breguet in the wonderful macro filming that you achieve.
Watchfinder videos.....what would we do without you!
This watch is amazing. It does not look so cool when you look at the pictures or even watch itself. But when you put it on the wrist, then it starts. A real piece of art.
I saw one on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. I'd seen one in magazines before but never in person. I need to try one on because even in person it looks outlandish. Fascinating nonetheless!
The making of this video is as marvelous as the theory it explains. You didn’t even use any graphics or illustrations to dissect such a detailed mechanism. Only micro videography, slow motion effect and a beautiful watch with a perfectly visible skeleton were enough to pass the idea through, and the narration is simply one of the best most engaging descriptive commentary you can find out there !!
I thought I already knew all of this - but here I am learning new things over again. I love this channel so much.
As a mechanical tradesman, I’ve worked on lots of gearboxes and other drivetrain components but it’s watches that I find most interesting.
This channel blows me away! Great content!
The feeling when a complex subject is explained clearly, concisely and in an engaging way... but your head is still spinning like an unregulated main spring.
You mean hairspring?
Breguet - the level of watchmaking that all great watch makers aspire too
Great content, has to be the best narration and photography I have viewed to date. Your work is a piece of art that displays in depth great detail and inspiration.
Another incredibly well written and filmed video! Thanks for the best watch content on RUclips!
Thank you @Watchfinder & Co, for your amazing videos, never the contemptuous and settler, always striving to make better videos with more stories and intricate watches.
Shocking finishing for the name and price!
Never look at a movement through a loupe. You can always find flaws.
7:55 the mainspring winds down and torque decreases, but that results in the timing increasing rather than slowing.
The energy put into the movement has an inverse effect of timing rate because of the reduced amplitude of the regulating organ. Less energy put into the oscillating weight which results in a shorter arc of travel. Shorter arc takes less time to travel, resulting in a higher frequency and thus, a faster rate.
Had to have that one explained to me once I realized I had no idea what kept the oscillating weights amplitude from dropping off fron friction.
Edited for incorrect wording.
What a brilliant series. Each episode is written like a drama film. Building itself with questions that both befuddle the mind, and find yourself asking “where is it all going”? It all crescendos to an apex where the true talent and genius of the watch at hand is unfurled in tight prose and entertaining narration. It all makes for an addicting series that always begs the same final question: what’s next?!
Of all the RUclips documentaries available, the watchfinder & Co has this remarkable quality to captivate your attention even if you have no real passion for watches. It relaxes the mind and make you believe for a moment that the world is orderly with ingenious people always and creative most of the time. Pity it ends after the documentary and reality comes back with its disorderly and chaotic order.
Perfect watch to illustrate this. About time we continue the video with constant torque
6:10 Man that slow-mo transition is way too smooth for my mere mortal soul..
A mechanical watch is is to a quartz, what a grand piano is to a casino keyboard. Good job sir!
Beautiful camera work to go along with the superb writing and of course, the voice.
I was following along with the video by looking through the case of my skeleton watch at the various components... Extremely well explained! Happy New Year!
8:21 no no!
We thank you for the information and the presentasion😘
the way it is explained is just magical. this guy has the ability to describe anything with such passion and eloquence that I truly feel smarter, more educated after listening. Looking forward to the next vid.
I would like to see you do a vid about the A. Lange & Söhne ODYSSEUS or Vacheron Constantin Overseas.
I clicked on this video afraid it was just going to say, "by using a spring." However, I was hoping it was going to be exactly what it turned out to be lol. Great job of explaining the escapement.
That was a great video! I hope you'll make one on constant force. The videography here was awesome, btw.
I got a Tissot T-Complication Squelette, and i love it.
It's a good day when watchfinder releases a new video.
Great, comprehensive explanation! Not just the answer to the question itself, but great framing as well. Kudos and thank you for that!
Love the videos. Watched so many explanations about this but I love getting another update!
Edit: this was the best one yet!’
tejbz??? what part of youtube am i on? lol
Not only an expert in watches but also a great story teller. Love every single video you post
Superlative description of how a mechanical watch works. Thank you Watchfinder and Breguet☘
It's truly amazing what humans can think of and then put into practice, particularly at such a small scale. Amazing!
It is so cool you choose a Breguet to do this demonstartion..thumbs up 👍🏻
I love these videos. Complex concepts explained beautifully and with fantastic photography.
Ah, I guess you've got some new camera gear 👍🏻
8:28-WTF happened there??
Beautifully explained. Thanks
This is the watch for those who would rather wear a watch backwards to look at the beautiful movement through the case back.
Everytime I get a notification I know it'll be an edification in Haute Horology. Great stuff!
That's honestly the most beautiful watch I've ever seen
Are you going to do Girard Perregaux constant escapement judging by the ending?
Lies all lies. There's a gnome on a tread wheel inside - everybody knows that. Terry Pratchet discusses these type of things in some detail in his disc world books.
Hallelujah :)
A follow up to this: isn’t it fascinating how one man, Yoshikazu Akahane of Grand Seiko looked at the beauty of a mechanical watch and envisioned a smooth running regulator to replace the escapement - the Spring Drive.
another stunning video. Thank you so much. I'm enjoying your work a lot.
How do they adhere the jewels to the pallet fork? It amazes me that the jewels don't come loose considering they rock back and fourth over 600,000 times a day.
They're held in place with shellac.
Now these type are the real videos!
More like theses
Now do it with the co axial escapement.
Q: Around 1:41. Why is there not enough room for a gear ratio of 17,000:1? Say, a watch oscillates at 4Hz, and the hour hand moves as expected. Makes 172,800:1 in my calculation. The IWC perpetual has a gear ratio of around 6.3bn :1 for the century slider (one of the highest ever to be crammed into a watch)...
What's the name on the finishing applied to the movement here? Not the dial
Loved it! Thanks 😊 I’ve been fascinated with watches since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Im drawn to watch movements like a moth to a flame 🔥. I enjoy your videos.
The loupe is not kind to the finishing on that Breguet
Exactly... Specially when you've already seen wonderful finishes like the Grand Seiko Springdrive
@@ehcaue we are desensitized to anything that isn't GS lol
@@ehcaue fuck grand seiko.
Yes great finishing but ugly design.....
And this brequet has great finishing, who will look at watch all day with 10x mag..... For gods sake.....
@@ilya399 bruhhh nooo the GS 4 seasons collection rlly added something magnificent to the watch game with beautiful textured dials! Amazing design and concept!
@@Martin-wb8bc
Each has its taste, to me gs or seiko is boring, too much japanese and mall watch design.
Textured dial is great, green or snowflake but rrest of watch is ugly :)
What a great segment. Thank you.
some amazing images , well done.
Wow, Great Video. Loved learning more about how my watch works.
Beautifully made and explained. Bravo!!
Beautiful watch. A fine example of pure mechanics.
As the main spring winds down, torque is reduced, the amplitude of the balance wheel decreases and the beat frequency *increases* not slows.
I have watched almost all of your videos and I must say - the videos where you explain the inner-workings of certain features of watches are some of my favorites. However, a small note of feedback, if possible from next time, it would benefit new enthusiasts if you can point to the relevant parts in the movement as you explain their function as a visual aid :) thank you for the great content!
This channel is the Apple of watch aficionado channels.
Were is the original sound track? I miss that.
This is
Amazing, portable, wrist-worn intricate little timekeeping machines. I really enjoy mechanical watches.
Flawless Delivery 💡
What is that watch called, I imagine it’s expensive but it’s stunning
Watchfinder channel video is truly the greatest channel of horology art on the planet...👍👍
Well done 👍 very enjoyable! Now I need to watch this vid a few more times for my simian brain 🧠 to catch up!!
Does anyone else enjoy the music in these videos to much, or is it just me? I'd love a playlist with these songs/tracks.
Another outstanding video. Absolutely outdid yourselves again.
How abaut Co-Axial for the next "How it works" video?
nothing special, its nearly the same only different escapement
I absolutely NEED the constant force video
I almost forgot this background :-D Another gr8 episode 10x Watch advisor!
Escape wheel is filthy unbelievable!
Superb as always. Still the best watch channel 👍🏻👍🏻
So it uses the properties of simple harmonic motion to precisely time the release of the energy? Cool.
The next watch on my list. Absolutely stunning.
Thanks for another great video! It would be fantastic if at some point you could discuss, compare or contrast the engineering and adjustments that went into the top Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham pocket watches as those were also marvels of engineering (and some would argue the finest damaskeening) for their time. 950B, 992, Vanguard, etc
Better yet, explain how the Atmos clock work.
@@YT-jh8co Those are actually a pretty simple internal bladder expansion and contraction, I think. But agreed! LeCoutre brilliance!
Doesn’t the grand seiko spring drive have a volt or an amp or fraction there of in terms of electricity?
Yes @bmwryder they are using coils to generate power, which operates a circuit which uses a quartz as it's timebase. Instead of an escapement, there is an electrical brake to limit the power Transfer between the main spring and the hands. So there is only a spring and no batteries. I love that symbiosis of mechanics and electronic, especially from an engineering perspective.
And how complications are added to it,one of he most impressive one is the minute repeater, again powered b springs! Beautiful watch, btw.
Fabulous video as usual, congratulations on your work. A joy to watch. Would be great to get an introduction to the new amazing H. Moser & Cie. Streamliner Flyback Chronograph Automatic.
Great video. What happened at 8:28?
Reminds me that authorities in Australia recommend persons living in country areas likely to burn in the 'bush fire season' have a portable radio which is powered by a battery charged by a 'clockwork' generator. The more things change the more they stay the same. N'est pas?
people always think that the bowstring is the spring, but its actually the wooden bow that flexes.
Your vids are second to none any time my mate say a watch is just a watch I say look this and show one of your videos
Thought you'd get a kick out of the following:
"Apple Watch Series 5: With the new always-on retina display, you always see the time..."
"Apple Watch Edition: Featuring all the innovations of Series 5 and the craftsmanship of traditional watchmaking."
Amazing Macro Photography.
Thanks for the info! who is this narrated by?
Thank you thank you thank you!! Just sat here with my 9yo son and completely dissected your video with him, explaining each part. Now I guess I have to go get him a Flick Flack! lol
Consider getting him an old "dollar" pocketwatch as well! One where he can open the back without worrying about damaging the movement or letting dust in. Bigger parts are easier to study and explore. Plus, being able to take a 100-year-old watch to school really is fun!
In earlier videos, you've compared A. Lange & Söhne watches with Patek Phillipe. Breguet watches, such as the one in this video, have such crisp finishing and one does not have to turn some of their watches over to see the movements in all their glory. Breguet's more complicated watches appear to be along the same price point as A. Lange & Söhne watches. Perhaps in one of your future videos you could compare Breguet with A. Lange & Söhne, under increasing magnification, pitting the French (Swiss) against the Germans, to see who emerges victorious?
Would love a series where you go through all the history of watches.
do you have any animation of what you are explaining?
I se a new vid from you, i hit like and watch immediately, something very special about your channel.
it is a miracle on our wrist, I still don't fully understand it, but this is the beauty of it
Very neat and Informative 🤗