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Brief details about modern day watches which you may find interesting and informative.

Five nations have been responsible for the development of the watch industry. (England) (France) (Switzerland) (United States of America) and (Japan).

Each country using their own method of development to increase the accuracy and innovation of the watch industry.

MACHANICAL WATCH

Mechanical watch movement use a mainspring for power source.

Manual watch

Manual watches must be rewound once every 24/48 hours via the crown to maintain the time keeping of the watch. But you must make sure you do not over-wind the watch otherwise you can break the mainspring, making the watch redundant. Once you meet resistant, you must stop winding.

Different mainspring, will have different release factors, which enable different watches from different company to run from (40/ 192 hours) without needing attention.

SELF WINDING WATCH

Abraham Louis Perrelet invented the self-winding mechanism in 1770. This was installed in to a pocket watch. A self-winding mechanism is one that rewinds the mainspring of a mechanical movement by the natural motion of the wearers arm and body.

This kind of watch work by winding rotor, which is in effect, is eccentric weight, which rotates when the wearer moves their wrist. Self-winding watches can also be wound manually, just like a mechanical watch.

The motion of the body and wrist also powers some electronic Quartz. The SEIKO Kinetic watches. This watch works on the same principle as the self-winding watch, by using the Eccentric weight to rotate when the person is in motion.

But instead of using mainspring they use a generator to charge a rechargeable battery, which then powers the movement.

The CITIZEN Eco drive work on similar principle as the Seiko kinetic, but instead of the Eccentric weight to activate a generator; solar light source is used instead.

The Eco drive system use a photovoltaic cell on the face of the dial, which then converts light into electricity which in turn is used to charge a rechargeable battery, the movement of the watch then draws its power from the battery.

If the watch is exposed to some form of light source on a regular basis, the watch will continue to give you good time.

ELECTRONIC WATCH

The first Electronically Powered watch was produce by the HAMILTON Watch Company USA.

One of the most famous electronic watch is the Bulova Accrutron. The electronically pulsed tuning fork watch introduced by Bulova in 1960. The electronically pulsed fork vibration is converted into rotary movement via tiny jeweled fingers called pawls.

The frequency of the watch was 360 hertz. Tuning fork watches were rendered redundant when electronic quartz watches were developed because quartz was cheaper to produce.

QUARTZ WATCH

The prototype Quartz was produce in SWITZERLAND by (CEH) Research laboratory in 1962.

The first Quartz watch to enter production was the SEIKO 35 SQ ASTRON in 1969.

The quartz movements have few or no moving parts, they use a system called piezoelectric, which is quartz crystal, this provide a stable base for the electronic movement.

The crystal forms an oscillator, which resonates at a specific frequency to accurately pace the time keeping mechanism to drive the movement of the watch.

Quartz watches comes in three forms.

1) Analogue, normal watch with second, minute and hour hand.

2) Digital, with digital numbers for telling the time.

3) Digital analogue combination of both system. Digital analogue comes with two batteries, one for the digital function the other for the analogue.

Quartz Chronograph is a system, which record the laps of time, similar to the workings of a stopwatch.

The analogue chronograph mechanism will record time laps up to 12 hours in duration.

The features of a chronograph, seconds, minutes and hours, also a section for display of 100's of a second, another for the laps of hours, they will even have a alarm function to wake you up. Some chronograph watches will carry other functions such as day date and month.

Digital Chronograph as all the same functions but will be displayed in a digital format.

 

ATOMIC CLOCK WATCH The RADIO SIGINAL WATCH. This type of watch is still an electronic Quartz watch, but is controlled and time adjusted by (GPS) Satellite Navigational system.

Europe (Central) using the German DCF time signal transmitter.(DCF 77).Europe (Britain, Eire and Portugal) using the British MSF time signal transmitter.America, using the W.W.V.B. time signal transmitter. Other countries will have their own satellite navigational system. The GPS will synchronize the time of day, the date, and account for leap years. Reset your watch forward and backward for day light time saving, twice a year change.

The general rule for the quality of quartz watches.

The better brand name will use better quality material on their components so they will tent to last you longer time.

The reliability factor will be greater in terms of how many watches will malfunction taken on a scale per hundred manufactured, quality control will also be better than the cheaper brands, but take nothing away from the cheaper brands, they will some times depending on the company, use quality quartz movements inside their watches, these movements are made by the big brand name companies, in this sense the reliability factor will be the same as top brand name watches.

In the cheaper range you have more companies fighting on the price front instead of the quality front so a large majority of these companies will put the cheapest movements inside their watch coupled with the cheapest metal strap.

These companies quality control is all most non-existence, the reliability factor of these watches is hit and miss.

Even in this cheap range you will get watches that will last you years, but it's a 40/60 chance of finding a good deal.

The more functions the watch as the higher the cost, complicated chronograph watches will cost more to make than a standard functioning watch.

Establish brand name watches even the cheaper ones such as Seiko, Sekonda, Casio, Timex, Citizen and others will function correctly for many years without problems.

Another thing to consider when looking at the quality of a watch is the amount of years that the company as been in existence, plus they might be brand names in their country but not in yours, this kind of company still as the quality and the reliability factor you should be looking for.

Battery standard and battery life

Battery life range from 6 months to 8 years average depending on the type of the battery.

The longest life span battery is (LITIUM BASE) which as a life span of 3/ 4 years average but up to 8 years maximum.

Next inline is the (SILVER OXIDED). These batteries as a life span of 1/2 years average but 4 years maximum.

And last, the (ALKALINE). This is the cheapest of the lot, this battery as a life span of 3/6 months but 1 year maximum. This battery provides the most danger for your watch movement in the sense that if left inside your watch outside the expiry date and the usefulness of the battery life; It can and will leak and ruin your watch movement.

My advice, never put ALKALINE battery inside an expensive watch, you're taking a big chance.

Watch batteries are specifically design for their purpose; they release tiny amount of charge continuously for many years.

Near the end of the battery life, the battery will hold less charge and when it reaches a set level, it will release less charge and you will notice your time piece running slow and losing time.