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Technical Perspective: Calibrating the Power Reserve
The power reserve indicator happens to be of great importance to some and of far less importance to others, understandably so. For starters, one could always argue that winding a manual watch and not knowing when to stop (especially if it’s your first time) can be rather intimidating. Yet again, even in automatics, it’s…
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Technical Perspective: Why a Journe Does Not Hack
In order to set the time in a typical mechanical watch, you’d pull the crown out to its time-setting position to engage the gears of the motion works thus, allowing you to move the minute hand which in turn moves the hour hand. This is done by engaging the crown with the motion works, which…