The escapement mechanism has been widely used for centuries in mechanical clocks. It is the mechanism by which a clock controls the release of stored energy, allowing it to advance in small, precise ...

Projects can often spiral, not down or up, but out. For [Derek] he started playing around with a 3D printed escapement mechanism and thought it was a wonderful bit of engineering. But with a simple ...

Some upmarket wristwatches are all bells and whistles, while for others their attraction isn’t in what they do, but how they’re made. One case in point is the Christophe Claret Maestoso showcased at ...

With its combined knowledge of micro-manufacturing processes and accuracy processes, CSEM has been a pioneer in the design and production of centimeter-scale silicon parts with fine mechanical ...

The Chignik River has an early and a late sockeye run. The early run’s escapement is now over 420,000 and the late run’s escapement is now over 220,000 as of July 29. It’s the first time the early ...

Rolex is known for a lot of things, but perhaps the most prominent is the brand’s reputation for precision. The Crown’s proprietary Superlative Chronometer standard requires its watches to be accurate ...

What’s great about mechanical watches is that you don’t have to understand what all the visible gears and other mechanisms inside actually do to appreciate them, they’re still utterly fascinating to ...