Thursday, September 22, 2005

Grandpa's Watch at the Observatory Trials

You may remember Grandpa's watch from previous instalments. A modest man's pocket watch of the 30s, other than Chris Heal's service, it's not a fettled or specially prepared racehorse in any way. Not exactly Kew, but, I decided to put its recently serviced movement through its paces in my own lab in my own version of the 'Observatory Trials'.


An Everite from 1937/8. Not exactly Patek tourbillon material. We'll see. Go baby go!

So far so good. Day 3 and so far the mean deviation in rate is 0. Whooh hoooh! Stay tuned for ongoing updates. (Beats reality TV anyday.)

2 comments:

Speedmaster said...

THat's really amazing. Is the balance qutie large, or is it just my perspective?

I would love to see some observatory type trials again between the big houses, mechanical only of course. ;-)

Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/

Velociphile said...

Well yep, everything was going great and then I went off to the US and haven't got back to this.....