The Co-Axial Escapement: How One Watchmaker Reinvented the Heart of the Mechanical Watch
For roughly 250 years, the lever escapement reigned as the undisputed engine of the mechanical watch. It worked. It was reliable. And almost nobody dared to touch it. Then a self-taught English w...
The Escapement: The Heartbeat Mechanism Inside Every Mechanical Watch
Pop open the back of any mechanical watch and you will see dozens of components turning in concert — gears, springs, levers, jewels. But all of that machinery exists to serve a single, tiny mec...
The Anatomy of a Watch Movement: A Visual Tour of What's Ticking on Your Wrist
Pop the back off a fine mechanical watch and you are looking at a self-contained universe. A few hundred parts, some no thicker than a human hair, all conspiring to track the passage of time withi...
