Wrist watches Mechanical
To date, the world has not invented anything different from the usual gradation of watches. All wrist watch movements are either mechanical or quartz (including electronic ones). Each mechanism has its own advantages and disadvantages.
So - a mechanical watch. Expensive. Solid. Prestigious.
This is not about the cost of this Rolls-Royce of the watch world (although the cost of mechanics is always decent), but about the maintenance of the mechanical structure. A whole staff of servants works for mechanical watches - every three years they are repassed, obligatory cleaning of parts, and so on.
It must be remembered that a mechanical watch cannot guarantee the absolute accuracy of the movement: imagine that you wound a spring (or it winds up automatically) and the spring starts to unwind, thus providing energy to the entire watch mechanism. The speed of unwinding the spring will not always be uniform, therefore, sooner or later, the watch will start to rush or lag behind. Permissible error for "mechanics" - + 40, -20 seconds per day. Pretty decent numbers! However, fans of the genre go for it. Why?
3 reasons to choose a mechanical watch:
- Watches with mechanics are long-lived watches. It has been proven that mechanical watches have a long service life due to the fact that, firstly, the watch life of the mechanism is extended by the materials from which it is made (it is always high-quality metal), and secondly, the easy replacement of parts that have failed, and not the whole mechanism. Such a watch can be received as a gift from the father and, with time, almost unchanged, passed on to your son, not forgetting to simultaneously teach the boy the basic worldly wisdom.
- No need for regular battery changes. Self-winding watches react to hand movements, but regular manual winding is a dubious pleasure. However, there are worthy people with a good memory who do not forget to start the spring of time every day, turning a simple action into a magical ritual, a kind of conspiracy to start the day.
- And the most important advantage of "mechanics" is prestige. For a long time, mechanical watches have been a symbol of wealth and high social status. Made entirely by hand, these watches demonstrate to the world the choice of its owner, the choice in favor of tradition and timeless values.
Mechanical watches are a classic of watchmaking art!