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Pocket chronometers with detent escapement

You can hardly find a modern watch with detent escapement. Nowadays there are only marine chronometers still have such a pretty nice regulator. Believe me - detent escapement - is more consistent than any other escapement, even traditional lever.

Repeaters from the inside

Unfortunately, repeaters are fairly rare and expensive so opportunity to own and service any of them is welcomed. Here I represent three repeaters: two quarter and one minute.

Review of English pocket movement with fusee and verge escapement

I found one quite old watch. It's a pocket watch in silver case of well known English watchmaker Markwick Markham. There're two things which interested me in this watch: the oldest type of escapement and a dial.

Inspecting minute repeater with chrono function

At Moscow flea market I found one interesting movement. To pity its in a poor condition: there's no case, some parts are broken, some missed. It's an old Invicta watch of the beginning of twentieth century.

Review of English pocket movement

There's the last watch I worked on. Here there's my lovely English pocket movement.

Soviet movements (Part 1)

Having checked TimeZone and other watch sources I found that most visitors consider that Russian watches are unreliable, the Russians cannot produce good quality movements, most watchmakers know only several calibers: Ex Valjoux 7734 - Poljot 3133, quite common 2612 with alarm and Molnija - a pocket movement 3602.

Soviet movements (Part 2)

As I told in the Part1 there was a modification of Molnija predecessor Salut. Here it is. A nice functional chronograph with small seconds and 30 min counter. You can notice that this counter is not on the line with small seconds and center hands.

Pobeda movements

The history of watchmaking in Russia is not very long. Before the October revolution Russia had to assemble watches from ready parts, imported from Switzerland. It was more profitable to assemble watches in Russia because of tax barriers.

Interview with the owner of ELYSEE brand

Interesting interview with Reiner Seume

Korea as a new pillar in Russian market

While thinking what are the top watch manufacturing countries in the world in our mind comes Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong (China) and South Korea. In Russia is also quite big market of domestic watches because of their relatively low prices. Also you can see the tension of watch manufacturing generally in Europe, Asia and USA.