Crazy Gyroscopic Escapement Module with Zenith Watches
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2017
- In this video report, we are coming back on one of those very impressive timepiece seen over the last few years, the Academy Christophe Colomb, because we just wanted to understand better how this super complex mechanics works!
This gyroscopic escapement module is simply fascinating to look at, as it remains flat whatever your movement of your wrist. In a certain way, it uses the same idea of the gimbal seen on marine chronometers, but here it's not the entire watch that moves, but only this very original and magical module. 
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Zenith is moving the ball down the field. Amazing mechanics. I couldn't get my head around the actual function trying to read subtitles and look at his computer and model, but I'll look at this more as it is out longer, there'll be more info about it. Very intriguing.
Your channel is unique, Marc André. The access you have to the horology temples and their masters is formidable. I thank you so much for the opportunity to virtually visit all this wonderful world. I didn't understand how the magic occurs in that mechanism, but I'm happy that it works! See you in the next video!
Thanks a lot and that's really the goal, to you with us!
hello from England. I've been fascinated by mechanical movements since I was a boy, I'm now 71 and they still fascinate me. I have got together a respectable collection during my lifetime. who wouldn't love to have this amazing watch in their collection. thank you for showing us
Thanks you for the explanation, that was suberb.
Love how your channel actually explains how the mechanics works instead of just showing how pretty it is.
Thanks and we really have grand ambitions with this must admit! Best to you
Amazing piece and great video!
Thanks for sharing Marc
Your explanation was clear as glass.. what Zenith did was basically incorporate 2 Differentials in the movement to counteract the movement of the gimbal.. it is the same principle as the differential in your car.. only these are built "Flat" because they need to be like that.. i love it!
Thanks a lot, very appreciated!
Truly in a class of its own. Great video!
It took me at least 10 minutes to understand the double-differential mechanism.
Pure genius !!!!
This watch started my big passion for watches! Its just am magical piece of haute horlogerie.
Magic is the word!
this is amazing. I always wanted to know the exact working of this mechanism, and you did it. Thank you guys...
Very welcome and thanks a lot!
Subbed! I thought a 3d tourbillon was already pretty crazy, but to integrate the entire escapement and mucbh of the hand gearing, is absolutely nuts. The only way this would be improvable is to make the tourbillon inside the escapement move independently, but that would just be showing off. This is already an insane achievement right there. Thanks for sharing!
Maybe their next step!
THEY NEVER SHOW YOU THE TIMEGRAPH.
I have wondered for a while how this works, thank you so much for making this video! Keep up the good work! Can't wait for your Basel coverage!
And next week we will have the SIHH coming your way. All the best till then
That looks incredible. Thanks for making these videos. Cheer!!
You're welcome and thanks!
Oh, my. That is moving art. Thanks for this video!
Very welcome, glad you enjoyed it! Best to you
TheWATCHES.tv I definitely did. All the best to you too!
Every time I think it can't get any better, it gets better, Salute 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅💯
Thanks a lot!!! Nice to hear and best to you
2:30 A feast for the eyes! Gorgeous bit of engineering :)
Happy you like this one, indeed spectacular, mechanical poetry!!
absolutely gorgeous
Just another awesome video!! Amazing job and great movement!!
Btw, does anybody know which program is used for 3D modeling watch movements in a computer? I believe there's a few of them, but wondering which one is used by Zenith for example...
3 videos in 3 days
nice
awesome work
i like the detail of the timer on the top left corner of the screen
+João B thanks a lot ;)
Great explanation about a hell complicated subject. The secret is to keep it simple though. You did it my friend and I loved the kind of history with the marine clocks. It was indeed sir the way you commented it. Greetings from Colombia, south America.
Thanks a lot, makes me very happy!
Inclusive now when is one the best pioneers in the business it's designs always are futurist. Amazing. Greatness. Beautiful. With own soul and iconics. Wonderful.
Thanks!
I really love your channel. Very informative and entertaining !.
Thank you very much and all the best to you
A loss for words. Brilliant!
I NEED TO SEE THE TIMEGRAPH FIRST, I HATE TO LOSE TIME WITH UNSUSEFUL THINGS..
Just about the coolest RUclips channel going!
Nice to hear, thanks a lot!!
Truly wonderful, thank you !
This is the type of watch video that makes me take a break from my work in no time.
+LutherWallander happy to contribute to a peaceful moment ;)
Absolutely amazing, truly art and science in one piece!
True art as you say!
This is really an engineering masterpiece.
Fascinating engineering.
Fascinating! It seems it only gyrates in one direction though, in addition to the standard tourbillon rotation? This is incredible already and I didn't even understand the explanation, but it would be even more amazing if they could develop a completely gyro-stabilized escapement that stays level no matter what position the watch is in.
That's what they achieved with this one, always stays flat!
So many watch companies talk about 'precision' and how the various gizmos they invent are meant to improve it. However, they never give actual numbers on how precise it all is. I think it's obvious that a normal mechanical watch with proper balance and poise will be both affordable and capable of accuracy to less than a second a day, long term.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I love your channel! I hope I can visit you in Geneva one day!
+Roelf van der Merwe would be a pleasure!
agreed!
Wonderful film
Maravillas mecanicas para complicar....
Hermosos problemas, genialidades, ingenieria, complicaciones....
Wonderful engineering helps no doubt with the temperature and positional problems that are the timekeepers worst enemies. No one seems to want to state the possible accuracy of these complications though. What is this all about?
Anyone know what software they use to simulate it? or is it just 3d visual?
Zenith the most accurate timepieces of all the Swiss manufacturers. Zenith has won numerous awards for accuracy. And yes, I own ONE and love it.
love it! very intriguing as first they introduced it as a tourbillon but nevertheless I love it! Saw a few times and it's breathtakingly beautiful and unique. But one thing though, I think witschi can't record the accuracy of this piece because no matter which position of the watch is, the balance always in the "dial up" position compared to "normal" mechanical watch our a tourbillon, the position did changed when the wrist/cage is rotating so virtually we could see how was the chronometric performance in each every positions. Another example was the Astroregulator by Cartier with balance and escapements are placed in automatic winding that act like a gymbal, eventhough it's still needs to be regulated at least in 3 positions like dial up, down, vertical in 6 o'clock position. And this Christophe Colomb mechanism is GENIUS as it really takes the advantages of movements in their dial up position, as the point of gravity only being centered at the bottom of the balance staff.... Thank you so much for this video! I expect to see a lot soon! SIHH2017 is around the corner!
Thanks for this very interesting comment and yes plenty of reports coming next week.
+TheWATCHES.tv cool! can't wait! so much expectations to see on instagram and it'll be awesome to have some much more in-depth report on those intriguing pieces....
... wonderful achivement ! ...
Thank you! I've been wondering this ever since i saw it. But it does appear to be a single axis gimbal system, no?
Double axis in fact.
Interesting bit of steampunk. I have one like this with flashing lights in the dial, great novelty item.
How much power reserve does it cost to run that? Beautiful video. Great job!
What a work of art !
I wonder how much such a watch might cost?
how much is a service on one of those bad boys? or does zenith do it for free considering astronomical price tag.
Also is your watch mobile anything like the mystery machine??
Awesome
La vidéo ne pouvait pas mieux tomber, je pensais justement un peu plus tôt aujourd'hui au fonctionnement de ce système avec un ami ! Merci pour la réponse !!!
+Samuel Charpentier (Samyno) tant mieux, fait plaisir!!
the watch mobile.. does it have a swiss movement :-)))) ?
Interesting
Please! What's the music in the very beginning?
UPD: I found it_). Gramatic - good evening mr. Hitchcock
Yes, almost every music we use comes from Gramatic, a very cool artist!
:)
how the hell does jurgen klopp find time to make videos about watches and manage liverpool?what a man!
Absolutely love your videos! O.o
Could you give us the link to these awesome beats in the background? ^^
Will add this feature on the website soon.
Fantastico
what sort of design software was he using?
How do we design the MHD waveguider based on this systems?
Lets say if we mount the vortex transmitter inside the gyroscope, and the resonant frequency outside the gyroscope,.would it effect the vortex strength? when the position of the gyroscope (which has its dielectric plane) changes as compared to its body frame?
Or should we fit everything inside the gyroscope?
Well that's a very good question ;)
Wow great channel
Many thanks, much appreciated and the very best to you
Great video! Regarding the explanation, the guy only explained how the rotation is countered on a single axis, but what when the thing rotates on another one? This was actually just bypassed in the video. Someone has some idea?
Nothing. The axis is centered to be most useful to a wristwatch wearer and they are just betting on the fact that It is the most important position to cover.
It's called gimbal lock and is very common in 3d modeling and in airplane equipment
Could you please give me the link to the video of the luxurious modern marine chronometer, thanks a lot!
Here's a fine example with the FB1 by Ferdinand Berthoud: ruclips.net/video/nPz9BevcQlw/видео.html
Thank you very much for the link, I appreciate it. However, I was interested in the big modern chronometer which is housed in sapphire glass and mounted on a gimbal. In your video, there is only few seconds of clip showing the marine chronometer. Could you advise me its title and who made it ? A link to an introduction video is even better. Thank you very much in advance.
Wow, that's is SO Cool! A CAR?
I wish you'd voice over the non-English parts, I tend to pause and resume the video many times just to catch up on reading, creates a disconnected experience. But I love it though! AMAZING movement!
This has always been something we're asking ourselves; what would be the best? Original or dubbed...
TheWATCHES.tv I would say dubbed for sure!
Wich software 3:14?
wow!! THAT'S INSANE! ok, Now I want to build a model of an escapement! For now I'll settle on a single axis!
Go for it and good luck ;) keep us informed!!! Best to you
I'll share the link when I start on it. your channel is on my daily watch list.
What is that at 1:46 ?
Quick question why is it the Great Britain falg and the Rolling Stones logo when Christopher Columbus was from Italy? I know there is many different versions but still, doesn't really make sense to me :)
+Adam Vedde This was a special limited edition, but there are much more "classical" versions with fine engraving for instance
First notice Colón was italian.
but but but you went to watch them make one. your right there. so where the flips the video of the guy making it? pref unedited real time!? please?
Madness 😱
Can you provide a link to more technical details. Specific patents. I would like to reproduce this device in a much larger model that is 3D printed in plastic.
Hello and I've actually seen something like this on RUclips, a guy that also provides the plans for you to print it and adjust it, mighty cool stuff!
TheWATCHES.tv I think you are referring to gyro-tourbillon and other tourbillons. But these are not exactly the same thing as this Zenith gimbled escapement module. If you have a link to someone 3D-printing specifically this Zenith module or even Zenith design patents to this module then could you please post them here? Thanks
Something similar. patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/b8/60/e1/2701bee6d43be9/US6729197.pdf
I think I found the patent.
patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f0/2d/28/74ca41440c5ed0/US9645550.pdf
This is an evolution of the original Zero G which was introduced in 2009.
OK, now, when will they make a grown--up to of this model1?
Can you help me do gear about my time.....
So the evolution of this module is what Jean Claude wants to tell the world about (in June)...
Probably something different still ;)
zenith should make more Gyroscopic Escapement watch.
I'm petty sure they will continue as we've heard about some "serious upgrade" of this mechanism to be unveiled in the future. Best to you
can't be geeky enough :)
How much is a watch like this??
Around the 200k mark depending on the models...
Wow
Why didn't Breitling come up with this?
You're always 'geeky' but I love your channel.
Time & Space!
Does this country have any dentists or toothbrushes?
Is it true that the management of zenith was sacked recently? and that guy from tag heuer took over?
Yes
Indeed true and very curious how JC Biver will handle this, but we can trust him to make some noise!
I just hope that he doesn't replace that beautiful 36K BPH movement with some ETA nonsense.
well.... expect some zenith timepieces become hublonitized! 😂😂😂
He won't do that, he knows that it totally part of the true value of the brand. When one of his predecessors introduced Sellita movements in some of the collection, now that was total non-sense coming from a movement manufacturer!
gyrotourbillion!!! what will be next?
Who knows and that's what is exciting!!!
Pssssst - Guys! Have you heard about (whispering behind a hand) the quartz crystal?
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Hazard to think how expensive this watch will cost be it in 18kt., yellow or white or even in Platinum cases. You have to have some very heavy cash reserves.
yeah, i‘ll probably have to learn french if i want to understand more about watches..
Imagine putting this thing in a automatic watch Winder
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*I'd watch this video to unwind...but im out of time.*
The quality of the video is too deam high!!!! Keep it up.
Will do and many thanks!
給超時空工作者~
Great! You do a good job!~
時間旅行的原型! 小宇宙!
Will You?
如果地球能找到可使用至少10年的能源，這種精密電池，體積小，
And then，
還可以做出光速的機器，跑得和光一樣快!....
Guess What?
你還得克服地心引力，大氣壓力，大氣層....
Amazing!
光跑十年的距離，10光年，的旅行...
Speed!
從這隻錶開始，
Inspiration!
到10光年的旅行，完成，實現!
會需要什麼方程式來計算?
需要多少時間?......
Talent ?
....
Jessica
2017.10.29. Pm 4:20
Taiwan, Taipei
j'ai rien compris !
Zenith says "fuck the tourbillion". The Tourbillion less accurate than this gyro tech. So even with a 5/6 axis Tourbillion will be ever so less accurate due to averaging the gravitation influence. Gimbals destroy the Tourbillion
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6:02 why the watchmaker is wearing condom to his fingers?
Only get to see Movement for Few Seconds...ROFL...WTF??
Nope, watched it 6 times and still have no clue how it works.
Real life performance of this movement is not as great, unfortunately. Probably because there’s still enough inertia to constantly move the cage and it only becomes flat only when hand is pretty relaxed. But this is not the point of watches like that I believe! It is a mechanical and engineering art and let it be so:)
I would be happy to stack my Submariner up against it any time. For a day, a week or a month.
Not a gyroscope...
I know! Lets see more of the watches and less of our host.