THE WATCH PAGE Check out the brand new EMC = Electro Mechanical Control by Urwerk. What Urwerk has done is create a sort of portable electronic timing machine that is permanently connected to a mechanical movement. This is combined with of...See more Check out the brand new EMC (Electro Mechanical Control) by Urwerk. What Urwerk has done is create a sort of portable electronic timing machine that is permanently connected to a mechanical movement. This is combined with offering easy to access "fine adjustment" tools on the movement so that you can not only measure of the accuracy of the EMC movement in real-time, you can adjust it as well. This is cool, but also completely insane and perhaps beautifully obsessive. To accomplish all of this, Urwerk needed to create a timing device small enough and simple enough to fit inside of a watch. The Urwerk EMC uses a small digital camera (optical sensor) right over the balance wheel and escapement to visually measure the timing results. It measures three full seconds and then uses those results to come up with a plus or minus seconds per day reading, which is shown via a little gauge Urwerk has designed. This system also required the design of a new style of balance wheel. The EMC will not have a battery for the electronics that it has. It will have a hand-cranked generator that directly charges a capacitor.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 19:32:50 +0000
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