Re: Strimmer line for a clock repair?
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:35 pm
Interesting stuff this. I'm not a horologist by any means, but like most of us anything mechanical fascinates me.
A fried showed us his collection of Leonardo DaVinci invented clocks recently, and so for Christmas my wife bought me this replica:
Bugger - how do I re-size that image?
The escape mechanism is a little ball on a chain that is flung left and right and wraps itself around a post - you can just see it on the right hand side at the top.
I can watch it for ages, it's quite mesmerising!
In fact, have a watch yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZ53wS_eaI
A fried showed us his collection of Leonardo DaVinci invented clocks recently, and so for Christmas my wife bought me this replica:
Bugger - how do I re-size that image?
The escape mechanism is a little ball on a chain that is flung left and right and wraps itself around a post - you can just see it on the right hand side at the top.
I can watch it for ages, it's quite mesmerising!
In fact, have a watch yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZ53wS_eaI
Now that is a beautiful thing! I wonder, had Leonardo lived (much, much) longer, would he have invented the compensating balance and the hairspring which, bizarrely, weren't though of until around the mid 1600s, hence some older clocks and all watches of the period only having an hour hand? That hour would have been about as closely as the technology of the time allowed timekeeping to be observed by those fortunate enough to own timepieces, a seriously luxurious item then, practically given away these days with the qu**tz movements and the maintenance free display technology.
