DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MECHANICAL, QUARTZ AND AUTOMATIC WATCHES
The difference between a mechanical watch and other types of watches is very simple. A quartz watch, which moves the hand forward from mint to mint, is powered by a battery. A mechanical watch, on the other hand, has a more uniform hand movement, and requires manual winding to function: these are therefore manual winding watches. An automatic watch, on the other hand, uses the kinetic energy released by the natural movement of the wearer (although it must be said that in many cases an automatic watch also has manual winding).
MECHANICAL CLOCK: HOW IT WORKS
To understand in depth how a mechanical watch works, you would need a book. The movement of gears and springs, the study of tolerances, the minimal movements: what lies behind these timepieces, even before mechanics, is art.
But we will try to keep it simple. Whoever uses a mechanical watch must turn the side crown several times, in order to accumulate the necessary energy. The spring thus charged will release the energy over time, slowly unwinding, to start all the gears connected to it and the additional springs: one after the other, these components will control and move the hands forward.
Depending on the mechanics and components used, the winding intervals – that is, the operating capacity between one recharge and the next – vary between 24 hours and 5 or 6 days. The charm of a mechanical watch, after all, is very often that of recharging it while you wear it.
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