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Winding the watch tightens its mainspring. As it unwinds, it supplies energy to the movement.
AEVO TIME STUDY 001 / SWISS LEVER
EXHIBITION 001
THE REGULATING ORGAN
FIELD NOTES / 001
A mechanical watch stores energy, carries it through a train of wheels, and releases it in a measured rhythm.
Winding the watch tightens its mainspring. As it unwinds, it supplies energy to the movement.
The escapement holds and releases the gear train in steps, giving the balance the impulses it needs.
The balance and hairspring establish a rhythm. In this 4 Hz study, four full oscillations produce eight beats each second at real speed.
Like a pendulum small enough to live on your wrist, it repeats an oscillation. The escapement supplies small impulses to sustain that motion.
This procedural model illustrates relationships using a shared animation clock. It is not a physics simulation or a watchmaking service guide. The hairspring has a fixed outer attachment and a moving inner attachment; its deformation does not conserve exact spring length. The escapement has timed locking and release phases, but its contact geometry has not been mechanically validated.
Read Bartosz Ciechanowski’s Mechanical Watch