/wt/ - Watch Thread: Rolex Edition

This thread is about the appreciation of watches, as well as the micro-engineering and materials engineering that are required to make a fine watch, clock, or other timepiece.

>Required viewing for new people (unironically):
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>Thread theme (unironically):
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>Used watch guide:
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> Strap guide:
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> watch essentials 102:
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omegaforums.net/threads/chronographs-vertical-and-horizontal-coupling.5539/
hodinkee.com/articles/original-iwc-doppelchronograph-caliber-79230
timekeeperforum.com/forum/threads/adjustment-and-regulation.21105/
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So to bring some educational content to this thread, if anyone is interested in understanding the differences between a vertical clutch chronograph and a horizontally coupled chronograph, and why vertical coupling is technically superior, this is a great article on the subject:

omegaforums.net/threads/chronographs-vertical-and-horizontal-coupling.5539/

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This is a really interesting article that I haven't even had the chance to finish yet, but which is already fascinating to those interested in the technical aspects of mechanical movements:

hodinkee.com/articles/original-iwc-doppelchronograph-caliber-79230

It covers the development of the first cam actuated split second chronograph movement and how it differs from traditional column wheel split second approaches.

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One of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of mechanical movements is the difference between adjustment and regulation.

Regulation only moves the center point of the spread between the rates the watch runs at in different positions, at different temperatures, at at different extends of mainspring wind, but it does not alter the spreads between those rates.

Instead, it is adjustment that does that. Adjustment involves, at a minimum, manipulating the geometry of the hairspring such that it is in the shape it was designed to operate in (typically flat, but not always), that its coils are spaced concentrically, and that it is centered between the regulating pins (if it is a regulated balance movement).

A good article on the basics of adjustment can be found here: timekeeperforum.com/forum/threads/adjustment-and-regulation.21105/

It is beyond this baseline, however, that the real skills of adjustment come into play. For free sprung balance movements, the careful setting of the eccentric screws in the balance can simultaneously alter the adjustment and the regulation because they simultaneously affect the poise of the balance wheel and the rate of the balance wheel.

For regulated balances, beyond a basic level, adjustment becomes something of a voodoo art where the deliberate manipulation of the hairspring geometry *out of* the baseline can be used to reduce the effect of different positions, temperatures and levels of wind on the escapement by deliberately misshaping the hairspring in such a way as to anticipate how the hairspring will be affected by those factors. In truth very few watchmakers still do very much of this kind of adjustment on regulated balances, as it is both time consuming and highly skill intensive.

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Would a Seamaster Planet Ocean look big on my 8 inch wrists?

Seriously, fuck Tudor nigger.

We're in here.

polacy robacy

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Actual thread here.

Oops.

Thread already made?

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God fucking damn it I'm dumb.

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Fuck off faggot

Which ones the right fuckin thread?

Check /fa/ we're over there.

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THIS IS THE RIGHT FUCKING THREAD DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE TUDOR NIGGER

The mods will end up deleting this one when they see it.

Migrate here:

>t.tudor nigger

why are we banned

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We aren't banned, we just relocated.

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>/wt/ is banned now on Jow Forums
wow, are mods such big fags now?

We haven't, we'll persist on Jow Forums through the spam.

I'm not relocating unless the mods start intsabanning watch threads on Jow Forums.

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The mods should really ill all those off topic threads not discussing technology as well of watch threads aren't allowed. There are currently several tech support threads and several brand whore threads, a couple advice threads where all they are doing is arguing brands not the technical merits. If the mods were truly doing their job by moving /wt/ they should kill or move those threads too. A lot of them are more fit for purpose of the request board.

This thread is now a state of the board thread which is allowed 1 per board.

the thing is /wt/ takes too much of our effort, you guys are constantly reporting posts here and we have to come in and moderate this thread to disproportionate degree

that is the issue

Surely rangebans can be given to people posting nsfw content and to people making false reports?

That's because there is a poster who constantly evades bans. He posts all over Jow Forums not just here.

you guys are reporting tons of posts where when we look at them they are just pictures of watches, we can't police what watches you like and don't like

obviously false flag reporters who should be banned

That is a result of literally one or two dedicated trolls who have spent all day every day shitposting, trolling and image flooding these threads for the express purpose of trying to destroy them. Banning them, in essence, rewards the one or two idiots making multiple hundreds of spam/troll posts a day and punishes all the long term posters.

How can we help? When threads are spam-bombed by one dedicated poster, make one post quoting all the spam posts and report that, so you see the context? Something else?

Pictures of watches are getting reported because one user deliberately spam floods /wt/ every day with images. The images are getting reported because they are being spammed, most likely by a bot.

>retard thinks he's talking to a mod

Must be his first day.

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>making this thread even more of a discussion about the board and the state of a general
>mods literally can't ban this thread because it 100% fits in the the rules now
Oh no you sure got them.