A Brief History Of Escapement Development
The escapement is a fascinating and very important horological invention. While its function can seem complex, it can be better understood through a simple experiment: imagine you have a coiled spring in your hand. Compress it with your other hand and quickly release it. All of the spring’s energy is released immediately without control. Now repeat the experiment. This time use a finger to let one coil of the spring release at a time. Energy is being released in a controlled manner and your finger is acting as an escapement. New manufacturing techniques and materials have opened up intriguing possibilities for escapement development. Examining the development of the escapement gives us a deeper understanding of horological history. In a watch, the escapement distributes a small amount of energy from the mainspring. The mainspring is a large spring that is given power when you wind the watch’s crown, or by an automatic winding system. Note that the mainspring i

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of my 15400. Really loving this watch.

incomming! heaps of pics!
thought id contribute to this forum more Finally found an engagement \ wedding watch, and my Fiance bought me this on the weekendso i finally pulled the trigger after visiting some AD's and dropping into WOS and trying on some watches to see what they look like on my wrist.im a big fan of lots of pics in posts of new arrivals, so on with the pics!well we now know its an Omega, but what one?a planet ocean cloth... could it be a PO?do PO's come with wooden boxes?open it up and what do you see?its a Deville Hour Vision on braceleti wasnt a fan of the pics, until i tried this on in real life and it changed my mindchange of lightingmy camera found it hard to focus on the side sapphireOmega's 8500 movementcrownlove the applied markersAR coatingcloseup of the silicon balance wheelhope you enjoyed and good to finally show some real life pics of the deville

Incoming!!! Again...
Third incoming in the last 2 or 3 weeks from DavidSW.I've went on a watching buying spree, but what can you do...First it was my grail the 116618LN nib gold sub, black dialThen a Cartier Calibre de Cartier Diver in steel and ceramic, blue on rubber Finally I just ordered a nib DJ 41 smooth bezel, jubilee, dark rhodium dialThese will be joining my white dial milgauss and explorer ii 42mm Black dial.Life is good!

Concerning band stretch?
I have the opportunity to purchase a very clean model 16610 but am slightly concerned bout the amount of stretch present in the band. Can any forum members help me with an assessment?Attempting to attach a pic here - sorry for the low quality of the image: