The Weird Watch Mystery that Took 350 Years to Solve | Watchfinder & Co.
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Ever been lying in bed, sick, staring up at the ceiling? You notice all sorts of things. Perhaps there’s a cobweb blowing about, or a crack in the corner that looks like a cat. For Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, he noticed something strange: the two pendulum clocks on his wall, regardless of how they were set, would always sync up with each other. There are two mysteries to be solved here: the first is why Huygens had two clocks in his bedroom in the first place, and the second is why the pendulums kept syncing up. The first remains a mystery and always will, but the second? It took 350 years, but the answer was finally found-and F.P. Journe has used that answer to make its watches even more impressive.
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every time I watch a video from this channel I'm left in awe. This sin't just a channel featuring beautiful watches in incredible detail anymore, every time I come here I learn something new. Incredible work, keep it up!
No pun intended? Every time I "watch" :P (since the clip only shows watches)
I would like them to actually review a watch.
That was my thought also as I hit the up vote. This is much more than a discussion of watches as much as it is a discovery of science that we all have tended to take for granted.
1D0N there a plenty of channels that do just that. This one offers something different. Although, really, this video was an in depth review of what makes this watch special.
350 years or the amount of time it'd take me to make enough money to buy a FP Journe.
I recon if all of Watchfinder's subscribers donated you a $1, you could easily afford one within the week.
I’ve got it down to 342 if I do a bit of window cleaning at the weekends.....
Peasant
It's only 50 grand. Sell your car, a kidney, then remortgage.
there is a clock on the stove.
Can't like this video enough. From the storytelling to the incredible movement and the whole watch, the macro shots... Watchfinder is 🔝
I now equate this guy's voice with timepieces. When the latest Rolex commerical came out and I heard a different voice, I felt cheated.
Now that's how history should be taught! Feels like 'celebrating' rather than dull 'record keeping'. These videos are such mind-boggling impeccable works of art. I always get speechless in awe while watching your content. Well researched historical facts along with sweet sweeet presentation skills! Simply can't praise you guys enough.
Aesthetically, I'm not a huge Journe fan but stories like these make me appreciate his talent and brain regardless. Great content.
Watchfinder leaves you to the most poetic, historic and practical subjects of horology.
Like Jeremy Clarkson's road test of an Aston-Martin. Whatever you think of him if you even only like cars that was the most poetic road test of a vehicle ever. A paean to the most amazing cars created by humans.
@@danmar007 Exactly!
Wow! This is the first time I’m hearing about it! And I’m a watch collector for more than 20 years... Congratulations!!! This is exceptional!
Weirdest episode of Vsauve I've ever seen.
Jokes aside, remarkable video quality, immersive shots, compelling story, and skillful narration. I love the way you share your passion for watches, and the effort you pour into your channel.
Not being able to understand this helps me understand why I can't afford this XD
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It’s not like being able to afford this, would even remotely mean you’d be able to understand this
I couldn't believe you said that the first mystery - why Huygens had two clocks - would remain a mystery. Christiaan Huygens had two pendulum clocks in his bedroom because Christiaan Huygens was the man who invented the pendulum clock! If I'd been the man who invented such a world-changing device I'd be sleeping with two of them as well.
I love the way you create stories around these watches. It translates your passion for watches perfectly and I think it should be a lesson to many content creators on how to tell engaging stories.
If a sudden movement caused one balance to slow, the other would speed up. And resonance synchronization would bring…. Oh no I've gone cross eyed
Love when my notification pops up for Watchfinders
This is my favorite channel.
What a beautiful and simplistic way of explaining such a complicated concept. One of the best videos on this channel. Many congratulations!
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I am sure most of us are not in position to ever hold this masterpiece in person; let go having own one to wear it on our wrist..
Yet, we truly appreciate the sheer beauty and mechanical wizardry presented by briliant minds like F. P. Journe and alike...
Suggestion for a future video: Vacheron Constantin Dual Beat
@donkey ass reviews and do's And compare it with the IR Remote Control CMD models!
Six Phatek Calatravas. Asking for a phriend.!
The level of research that comes through in these videos to promote understanding at the almost layman’s level is awe inspiring. This is a well-done video, as they all are, in fact.
I think Huygens had two clocks for redundancy. Many Engineering systems have this for safety, especially in critical application. For example, an aircraft I believe is required to have two or more independent ways to measure critical parameters such as airspeed, altitude etc. Or maybe I am overthinking and he just hated odd numbers.
Fantastic video, thank you for making this! Hope your channel continues to grow!
A perfect video as usual of one of my grail brands!!! Hopefully one day an F.P.J will share a place in my watch box with my DW5000 G-Shock 😃
2m32 - Lordy, that’s a great shot. Thanks for the content - love this channel.
The reason Christian Huygens had two clocks is that he was on a ship. Ships usually had two clocks to be used as a marine chronometer. One told the local time and the other told the time at a fixed location (usually Greenwich). The longitude can be calculated using both of these.
I am a Physics PhD student and my first research works were on studying very similar synchronization phenomenon in different systems (chemicals, biological networks).
He was not on a ship. You cannot get a pendulum clock to work on a ship at all, no one has ever. The Marine chronometer was a hundred years later. The pendulum clock had only just been invented and was still being perfected for static use.
He was not on a ship. He was bedridden in The Hague - where he lived and conducted research in the properties owned by his father - when he first observed the phenomenon. His letter to Sir Robert Moray and The Royal Society (with whom Huygens was corresponding regarding sea trials of pendulum clocks), dated 27 February 1665, confirms this.
"Watch"ing this for the first time, and at 0:58, the concept of "coupled harmonics" has already flashed into my mind. It's like putting several metronomes on a shelf on two rollers and letting them tick.
6:58 Lmao, ive thought about this too, imagine all the geniuses were are wasting their potential today in the internet and videogames
Or stuck watching endless youtube video's at 4am......
@@gret689 hey i do that too lol
Worse, they're all hedge fund managers
Could you zoom in a little more in future I couldn't quite make out the individual molecules in the dial. Stunning work sir.
I always wondered what was about this curious watch, the answers amazes me more!
350 years is how long I feel I've looked at this watch advertisement before getting to the point.
I have watched your videos so much while in bed in the evening that I get tired when watching during the day, like a little horological bedtime story. Big fan btw.
Interestingly enough, there is a resonance pocketwach commissioned by J.W. Benson in the early 1900s which also has two independent movements and a similar closeness between the two balances (I am not talking of those catpain's watches from the 1860s which also had two independent movements for home time and local time). I have seen this Benson watch in a 1990s auction catalogue.
A quick summary of this channel and its products. Class and finesse.
Has anyone measured how much more accurate this setup actually is over a well designed single balance wheel? John Harrisons's ocean going clocks used a pair of balance wheels locked to each other in counterrotation to achieve a similar effect without needing to double up on the rest of the mechanism. This arrangement is still affected by yaw, so was supplanted by a single higher frequency balance wheel in later designs.
Have you noticed that those 2 seconds hands are not in-sync @ 4:40 ?
God damn it man, you articulated this so WELL .. WOW
On top of everything else, this is my favourite Watchfinder music - don't hear it enough!
Astonishing, both the story and the watch!
This was a notably excellent video; thanks and congratulations
Fantastic lecture! (In the best possible way) Perhaps the best on the channel to date.
Not sure this channel can get any better!
Agreed.
My suggestion is a rustic wooden table as backdrop so our eyes don't bleed from the vibrant, sterile, white background.
the lack of 1000 comments such as 'OMG I clicked so fast i broke my fingers' and 'OMFG, the narrators voice gives me orgasms' every third post would make it infinitely better IMO. Less comments on the 'awesomeness' of the channel and more talk about the content would be, well, most awesome. right ?
I seriously love your videos. You helped me understand a watch I honestly always thought was weird
It's a rare watch that manages to be mesmerizingly eye-catching without being flashy.
If you met a gentleman who sports this watch on his wrist, you will probably not notice it at all for good many minutes--but once you do you will not be able to pull your gaze away.
Is it me or was the video and audio quality higher than usual? How is that possible 😱
Also, this guy is one hell of a gifted writer/producer.
the humour of this channel is top notch =)))
Absolutely fascinating . what a genius Huygens was.
FP Journe, A. L&S, Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin are hands down the best Maisons right now.
I just listened to your voice in the very first videos in this channel and this one now. You seem to have evolved from some well - sounding normal chap into some sort of horologist divinity. Kudos.
This video was an absolute treat. Thank you.
Please do a video on Credor watches.
Somehow I don't think Neil Armstrong would mind being called a pilot. But great video anyway.
Certainly not. Neil probably considered himself more of a pilot than an astronaut. And an engineer, of course.
Why DID Huygens have two clocks next to each other on his wall? Maybe to make sure he was never late if one clock stopped? Check for differences in timekeeping? A clock collecting hoarder? Imagine someone collecting clocks in such a compulsive, obsessive way? Unheard of!
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Greetings from Holland !!
Fascinating timepiece and history. Thank You!
Always a pleasure to watch your works
Way over my head so i watched it twice. Great review i love learning stuff like this.
I like this! Idea with opposite swing. Constantly power, less surges.
You know this watch is cool when the 2 balance wheels are featured in the watchfinder intro videos
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Excellent storytelling and videography. Cheers m8
What a great story telling! Very inspiring. Hope one day I can enjoy them on my wrist.
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Brilliant
Brilliant video!!!
Excellent story telling - thanks a lot!
I have yet to see any watch channel or manufacturer present hard data in support of any benefit to precision or accuracy. Without that hard data it is simply an impressively ornate demonstration of a phenomenon within a watch case. If the observatory trials were to return for mechanical movements, would implementing a resonant movement be a differentiator in taking top places?
Can we have a section for best/affordable moon phase watches? Or most affordable alange and sohne? Great channel!! Congrats!
Outstanding
You are an exceptional story-teller (of facts)😎! Thank you!
new table?
No capitals?
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@@andrews9961 : Now you're YELLING. Why?
Journe and Lange are the kings of movements and finishing, along with Ferrier. At the very top level, Patek is there, but at their lower level, not even close.
Bregeut aren’t half bad either...! The absolute pinnacle has got to be Roger Smith...
@@rare6499 VC with their Geneva seals. Grand Seiko.
Just beautiful workmanship on that watch.
I want to be a mechanical engineer
What can you tell me about the Patek Sky Moon tourbillion?
I have had plenty of time to watch windshield wipers on a boat. After enough boredom you can figure out that they sink every 100 strokes, or so. This meant that the one was faster by 1/100 of a swing . When a full swipe was gained they were in sink for a few swipes until they were perceptional different. I find it more interesting that a balance wheel is calibrated to adjust for speed due to temp, humidity, air pressure by being bimetallic.
Huygens had two clocks in his bedroom because he lived where he worked: his father owned a few properties in The Hague among which Huygens located his residence and work. He was likely restless being bedridden for several days, and then had his brother, also a lens grinder, (or another family member) bring a few clocks into his room so he could do some experimentation.
He was not on a ship as another comment here suggests. Huygens wrote a letter, dated 27 Feb 1665, to Sir Roberty Moray (a Scottish philosopher) and the Royal Society discussing his first observation of the synchronisation phenomenon In that letter it is quite clear that Huygens was at home in The Hague.
Excuse me if I didn't get your point correctly but if the concept was sound shouldn't the two second hands be in sync? Cause at 4:38 they're clearly not
The coupling mechanism is off course... air friction. Or in Huygens case, internal friction in the wooden beam. A synchronized motion is the path of least resistance to convert the energy in the spring into heat and to make its small contribution to the increase of the universe's entropy.
what's the bg music?
So, would this arrangement be more accurate and less susceptible to movement than a gyrotourbillon?
Holy hell that was fascinating. Brilliant video.
Fascinating, and told so well.
An absolutely stunning Timepiece
Expected to hear about Lagrangians and such. Took me back to the years when I knew things.
Thank you so much for this vid! Amazing story
Such a beautiful watch.
I liked better the old audio. This one is like you’re whispering loudly in my ear
I noticed that too (and don’t like it), there is quite heavy compression on the recording, which means that his breaths are virtually as loud as his actual speech. Compression is used a fair bit in recording singers when they want this effect (which is very overdone even in music in my opinion), but used on speech it is somewhat unsettling. It just goes to show you can be very knowledgable(even an expert) in one field, and yet quite naive in another (this is not meant as an attack, I think we probably all do it to some degree)
Interesting video and good history lesson. However, I was disappointed that no performance data was provided to compare this movement with traditional 'single' movements. The lack of data leads me to infer the performance gains were not significant.
Thanks for the video.
*I gave up looking at the Ceiling after **4:20** and went on EBay and bought a Radio Controlled **_Precision Watch_** that is guaranteed to keep to less than 1 second in 10 Million Years, that's OK by me and only £40. It Also auto adjusts BST/GMT each Spring & Autumn*
if there is a beam or link between these two balance wheels that are sensitive to vibration doesn't it also follow that external vibrations will also nudge the time faster/slower?
no great mistery, vibrations, good vibes, high frequencies, in music, in feelings, in all nature, favors life. This is just an example where two vibes living together, eventually equilibrate one another. People think this vibe thing is hippi stuff, but it isnt, and here is a scientific example, and there are so many others. Great research, thank you! now we can see these dual balance wheels in many models, like breget.
How very interesting. Beautiful looking timepiece. Ingenious movement.
What an amazing video!
I came here seeing the thumbnail of a strange watch and ended up learning physics.
Beautifully narrated!
Journe is an effing genius.
what an AWESOME video. thank you
I like watch channels, but you guys are in another level.
Your video are better than any series! I'm always waiting the next episode! =D
Blown away by the content of this vid !
Try rotating the Michelson Interferometer vertically and NOT getting an identical result. Good Luck!