How it Works: Mechanical Watch

by Sep 3, 2022Lifestyle, Videos

All watches on the market today are either quartz or mechanical. And when you think of watches most people wear, they wear quartz watches.

Mechanical watches are a tad more expensive, but also more prestigious. All of the luxury and high-quality brands produce mechanical watches. A mechanical watch is a watch that uses the mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function electronically.

A mechanical watch is driven by a spring, called a mainspring, which must be wound periodically. Automatic mechanical watches do not need winding if they are worn for 12 hours on a daily basis. All they need is motion to keep the mainspring wound.

With that in mind, a lot of people are amazed how a watch can work without a battery, or how it can be adjusted without winding. This documentary explains that, and also gives you an idea why are mechanical watches more expensive.

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