How A Mechanical Watch Works - Explained Simply In 3D - How A Watch Works - Atelier DE GRIFF
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The Mechanical Watch Movement Explained Simply
Barrel? Double Barrel!? Escapement? Barrel Arbor? Arbor Hook? Keyless works? Motion work! What is all this?
Today we will talk about the mechanical watch movement, and we will try to explain it simply. By taking you on a journey to the heart of a mechanical watch, we will see the different parts that make up a watch movement and how they all work together.
Put simply, we have energy stored in the barrel, which travels through gears we call the going train, leading us to a funky-looking wheel. The escape wheel dances all day long with the pallet fork which swings left and right. The rhythm at which these contraptions dance with each other, is set by the hairspring and the balance wheel which turns back and forth. How does all of this work though?
0:00 Overview
0:45 Foundation
1:35 Energy Creation
2:22 Energy Storage
3:07 Energy Release
3:49 Energy Regulation
7:01 Keyless Works
7:45 Motion Work
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A conventional watch movement is both crazy and brilliant. It's a miracle that such an apparently haphazard arrangement of components can actually work, yet alone keep excellent time. A striking clock movement (s) with going train, striking train and chiming train is even more insane. But it works! Nobody can look at this video and not love watches... Thank you for this! 👍🙂👋
Super nicely said! Thanks a lot for the positive feedback, super appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
Nothing haphazard about the arrangement, but rather it is meticulously deliberate.
@@kenthomas1845 Yes, it is deliberate, but if you've overhauled one you'll get what I mean. It's crazy genius...
showed my son this clip and he was amazed. To think all these elements are made at such a micro scale its astonishing! love mechanical timepieces
As a father myself, this was a heartwarming comment to read. Thank you ☺️🙏
Yes and to think the 19th century great watchmakers Hamilton, Elgin, Waltham all had this down to incredible tolerances and enabled the railroad companies to flourish!
Best watch explanation video on the planet. Thank you so much!
Woah thanks so much! 🎉
@@degriff I agree. Clearest explanation so far I have seen... Thank you
Excellent video. One tiny point: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another.
Where does that matter? He mentioned the mainspring provides the energy. And it does. 🎬
Trust me, it matters. It’s one of the fundamental laws of physics.
@@granbyplungar2929 Who doubted it? show the time stamp.
That's a great presentation and makes understanding how a mechanical movement works fairly easy to understand. Despite watch movement technology being hundreds of years old it is still captivating and genius engineering. Many people are enjoying wearing mechanical watches, even in these digital times, because clearly a mechanical watch has something of a soul. In short it's man's attempt at constructing a beating heart.
Wonderfully said, thank you!
@@degriff My pleasure. Again, great video.
Long been a fan of mechanical watches, and this was, by far, the best explanation of how it all works. Excellent video.
Thank you so much, this is really nice and very encouraging to read!!
@@degriffYou're welcome. I shall have a look at your other videos.
Thank you for the excellent explanation and presentation!
Thank you very much for the perfect video.
Thanks so much for watching and the kind feedback! Really appreciate it 🙏
How the escape wheel was making the balance wheel move, through the impulse pin & jewels, is the one thing I was always wondering about. Thanks for the video.
Very comprehensive explenation for watch enthusiasts as l am. Thanks a lot
Thank you very much for the positive feedback! 🥂🙏
Best simple explanation I've found. Thank you.
Much appreciate the kind feedback, thank you as well!
Very nice explanation. Though I like to explain the palet fork before bringing in the balance wheel into the picture. The pallet fork having two stable states (left or right) when torison is applied by the main spring through the train if wheels and that the main spring would maintain its potential energy forever unless something acts on the palet fork (enter the balance wheel).
Very clear presentation of how a watch works. I have autism and it helps me a lot. I would be interesting to see how some complications works.
Hey Hans, thank you so much, that is very nice to read and I’m glad it was useful for you! The animation work was insanely time consuming (I’m not a pro at it, at all) but with what you wrote, yes, I may follow up with a few important complications as well then in the future 😄🙏
Beautifully done, very much appreciate your hard work on this!
Thank you very much, I really appreciate the kind words and positive feedback! 🙏
Well explained and lavishly illustrated ! Great job ! Well done !!!
Thanks a lot! Much appreciated
You should make more content and advertise more, because they are really good. While other youtubers talk BS your content is really interesting.
Thank you! I have never explored the advertising youtube mysteries, but I will check it out :-)
Wonderfully explained in simple terms with great visuals.
Tqvm, well done!
Thanks so much for the positive feedback!
Thank you, this was terrific!
Very welcome, and thank you for the very kind feedback!
Just wow 🔥🔥🔥
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Outstanding content
Thank you!
Surprising to see a video like this from a channel with so few subs. Keep up the good work.
Many thanks! 🙏
Great video, very good and simple explanation of how a watch works. Thanks a lot!
Are you A.I.? He did not explain how a watch works.
Thanks, much appreciated! 👍
Great explanation and cool graphics!
Thank you very much for the kind words!
Probably the best explanations
Thanks a lot for the kind words!! 🙏
Thanks Master Jan
Pleasure reading you here Mike!! And thank you for watching 😇🙏🙏🙏
Thank You. Excellent depiction. Is there any chance that you could do a 3D on why an automatic, which is constantly winding, would never break the mainspring?
Thank you! Good suggestion for the future 😄
Really cool video
Thank you very much 🙏
How did they not burn the first watchmaker at the stake. This is witchcraft!!!
Thank you for this video it’s AMAZING!
😂😂😂 You are right, it never ceases to amaze me how they came up with this! Thank you VERY much for the kind words and the laugh 😁🙏
Thanks for this informational video! Could be added, that the wheels turn exactly how they need to turn to let the hands show the time 😉
How long did it take to make all that animations?
Thank you very much for the kind feedback and the addition! 😄 This took around three weeks (full time days) to make, using Blender. I’m sure someone more experienced can do this much quicker, but this took me a ton of time as I don’t do this type of animation very often at all! I also spent quite some time on the sound design 😁
Edit: I also have to add that it took several days just to render as I have limited computing power here. And I had to render quite often as I kept running into issues or mistakes which meant starting things over :-) As I said - I was not the most efficient with this!
@@degriff You did a great job! 💪
@@alexscharoff5028 thank you very much, I really appreciate the positive feedback ☺️🙏
Good talk
Thanks!
Which part of it turns the hands? How does it move the second, minute, & hour hands at different speeds? 🤔
Different gear sizes for the appropriate ratio of time. Motion Works explained at 7:45
Its easy to understand how a mechanical watch works . But a Quartz watch not easy to understand ftom A to Z especially the intigrated circuit. Without the knowledge of electronics.
Did you use any specific movement for your 3D model?
So how can I set my watch without breaking the wheel train?
Great animation but the background and music are super creepy
That's great. Is the narrator Québécois? I hear a slight accent.
Thank you! Bruxellois 😸
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Second wheel = forth wheel...
Energy cannot be created nor distroyed right???
Imagine doing this much and still being worse than a 1 dollar quartz lmao
I would much rather have a beautiful automatic than any quartz watch. Mine is +/- 2 seconds a day, and it's pure class. A work of art.
We don't really compare them that way.
you did not explain how it works not even 50%
Video quality is pretty poor and very very dark