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  2. Spring Drive - Wikipedia

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    The Spring Drive uses a conventional mainspring [3] and barrel [4] along with automatic and/or stem winding to store energy, just as in a mechanical watch. [3] However, the escapement and balance wheel in mechanical watches is replaced by Seiko's Tri-synchro Regulator system, a phase-locked loop wherein a rotor, which Seiko refers to as a "glide wheel", is powered by the mainspring barrel via ...

  3. Seiko - Wikipedia

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    This Grand Seiko has a 25-jewel, manual-winding, 3180 caliber, and its production was limited to 36,000 units. The watch was also the first chronometer-grade watch manufactured in Japan and was based on Seiko's own chronometer standard. [40] [41] Some Grand Seiko timepieces also incorporate the company's Spring Drive movement, a movement that ...

  4. Automatic quartz - Wikipedia

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    Automatic quartz is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self-winding rotor mechanism [1] (as used in automatic mechanical watches) to generate electricity with a piezoelectric quartz crystal as its timing element. Such movements aim to provide the advantages of quartz without the inconvenience and environmental impact of ...

  5. List of watch manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Samsung; Sandoz watches; Schwarz Etienne; Sea-Gull; Sector; Seiko; Seiko Instruments; Seikosha; Sekonda; Shinola Detroit; Sinn; SSIH (previous holding company, now ...

  6. Repeater (horology) - Wikipedia

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    Roy Ehrhardt (1993) European Repeaters & Clock Watches, Book 1, Heart of America Press. ISBN 0-913902-72-1. A compilation of repeaters and clock watches found in auction catalogs over the years. 170 pages. A picture and a description of each watch is given. The watches are sorted by functions and brands. The Book 2 has not been released yet.

  7. Watch - Wikipedia

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    A Grand Seiko Automatic watch A self-winding or automatic watch is one that rewinds the mainspring of a mechanical movement by the natural motions of the wearer's body. The first self-winding mechanism was invented for pocket watches in 1770 by Abraham-Louis Perrelet, [ 57 ] but the first " self-winding ", or "automatic", wristwatch was the ...

  8. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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    Automatic or self-winding In an automatic watch, including in most mechanical watches sold today, the mainspring is automatically wound by the natural motions of the wearer's wrist while it is being worn, eliminating the need for manual winding. Additionally, a distinction is also sometimes made on whether or not the movement offers hacking ...

  9. Wheel train - Wikipedia

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    In striking clocks, the striking train is a gear train that moves a hammer to strike the hours on a gong. It is usually driven by a separate but identical power source to the going train. In antique clocks, to save costs, it was often identical to the going train, and mounted parallel to it on the left side when facing the front of the clock. [11]