How a mechanical watch works, basic theory of Horology Part 1of2 

Thnx for your support Kevin.

I agree totally. I'm in the process of getting tools together to strip and clean a Waltham pocket watch.

@@trevorjenkins3934May the force be with you!

Thank you so much for your support Eric!

There is a YT channel called MIT OCW (open courseware) and one of the playlists is 3 physics courses, twenty-something lectures each consisting of classic Newtonian, electromagnetism, and wave functions all given by Professor Walter Lewin, a proud and prominent Dutchman. Anyways that's where I learned about conservation principles, oscillating systems, Huygens' contributions (as well as how to correctly pronounce his name!) and so, so much more. His lectures have an emphasis on demonstration and they are absolutely amazing, all kinds of supplemental material, highly recommended.

So generous David, thank you so much!

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I've watched a few videos on how a watch work's & still get lost I'm hopeless 🥺

@@juniorjohnson5961 If interested you will get there. There is a lot of information packed into a small time frame without providing a full physics lecture behind each piece. If you can understand the pendulum period(=time to go through one one complete cycle) is the same unless you change the length of the string or the mass at the end, and does so despite how far of a distance it has to travel in its cycle, then you are doing good. He then translates the weight on string being acted on by gravity with a weight on wire (=hairspring/balance spring) being acted on by its springy force. Just as a spring attached from above to a solid surface can bounce up/down like is used on car shocks or can be bounced side to side, it could also be rotated around its center. Springs will oscillate with less and less energy per cycle until they reach a state where they aren't moving. Wasn't brought up in this video, but the mainspring where the wound energy is stored will through gears apply force to spin the escapement (=gear with strange teeth to interact with the pallet fork) and every oscillation of the balance spring will bump the pallet fork allowing a very small rotation of the escapement and the mainspring energy will push the escapement through that available range of motion. The escapement will hit the pallet fork on the other side as it does so and the escapement becomes stuck. The energy transferred into the pallet fork is transferred back into the balance spring. The pallet fork is now stuck waiting until the oscillation of the balance spring pushes into it the other way restarting that cycle. The watch keeps time as energy goes from a higher wound state to a lower wound state because it doesn't matter how hard the pallet fork hits the balance spring based on energy from the mainspring because the balance spring still takes just as long to run its rotations back and forth (though it will rotate a shorter distance with less energy).

@@mirror1766 Thank you for taking the time to explain this 🙏

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Dankjewel Pim!

So nice to hear, save the Ruhla's! ;o)

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A million..... that would be very nice, but for now i'm very happy that you are watching, LOL

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Leuk om van je te horen Joop!

Thank you so much! really kind.

So many tiny improvements over the centuries, we are standing on shoulders of giants. I fully agree!

You did Joseph!

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