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0 pointssanoli10y ago0 comments

Spring Drives are pretty rare outside of Japan. Most mechanical watches today tick 8 times a second. On a small watch it's pretty smooth to me.

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Cookingboy10y ago

The balance wheel oscillates at 8 beats per second, but it requires 2 beats to complete a full second "tick", so most modern mechanical watches actually tick at 4 times per second.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_wheel#Period_of_oscilla...

sanoliOP10y ago

It is 8 ticks per second. Look at this video of the hand up close (it's a 28800 bph movement):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxgahvNH3q0

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