WATCHES & JEWELLERY
So-called complications, especially those of the mechanical kind, traditionally belong to clockmaking like salt to the sea. PRESTIGE presents the most important and the best-liked.
So-called complications, especially those of the mechanical kind, traditionally belong to clockmaking like salt to the sea. Amongst the earliest are alarm clocks. In addition, calendar movements have also been known for centuries. Tourbillons inspire visually oriented people and proven precision fanatics. World time indicators are particularly addressed to cosmopolitan people and globetrotters. In turn, chronographs are by far the most widely used. The striking mechanism is the most intricate additional function in relation to skills and technique. And the range of complications knows almost no limits. Experienced technicians keep coming up with new things. And gifted watchmakers can combine almost anything in one movement. For instance, the union of a drag indicator chronograph, perpetual calendar and minute repeater all in one case may call itself the “Grand Complication”. PERPETUAL LASTS THE LONGEST In regards to mechanical watches, date displays and calendars are fundamentally nothing new. They have been used for several centuries in clocks. Of course, the simple ones have a decisive shortcoming: Their display accuracy is a maximum of 92 days per year, from 1 July to 30 September. Also, even though the first of October has come, it indicates the 31st. In that case, it’s time to lend a hand. So whoever doesn’t like this situation should resort to the perpetual calendar. It knows and takes into account the length of the different months in normal as well as in leap years. Of course this takes a correspondingly tremendous, mechanical effort. The rear derailleur, which is located under the dial, consists of up to around one hundred parts. The most important component of conventional constructions is the