2010-10-25

Know More about Retrograde watch

Watch Traveling Report: If a watch, it is not a pointer along the dial scale neatly cycle, but according to sector and from the track to do exercise, you will feel?


Returned only for the maverick Retrograde  

Faced with this maverick does not have any practical function of inverse jump device, conformist people think it is heretical, and may secretly cursing in their hearts the words "eat the support of the"; while playing a watch of people appreciate the design that goes beyond traditional norms philosophy, the pointer returned to play against a lot of fun jumping increase.

Retrograde and avant-garde design of the pointer is often accompanied by, the person interested in this, absolutely full of personality. Originally Well, "reverse jump" is a maverick identity!

What is Retrograde?

And the tourbillon, the three asked, compared to calendar device, a reverse jump is not a very complex technology, the price threshold is not too high, some of yuan on mechanical watches to see a simple "reverse jump."

Reverse jump pointers (Retrograde), also known as "bounce", "returned", expressed as a pointer to arc to run track, when it reaches the end of spring back immediately when the starting point, so that the pointer turn into a reciprocating motion, different from the general circular motion.

Second, minute, hour, date, and even moon phases are likely to reverse hop show, and watch designers are very happy to co-operate to build a different function of inverse jump on the same dial, creating a more interesting time to run.

A Short History of the Rise of the pointer jumping

Go to the fan looked at the pointer end of the display panel, the Shashi jump back to the origin pointer leap in the moment to admire the wonders of mechanical process, you also have realized that the "time reversal, start all over again," Philosophy of Time, perhaps, reverse jump pointer to the original design inspiration from this.

Jump pointers against the very ancient history, back in 1794, Breguet (Abraham-Louis Breguet) produced a calendar with retrograde pocket pointer, the pointer becomes a retrograde display appear. To the 1892, E. Koehn inverse design a more complex jump second hand, and patented, so that this function presents a diverse, after that, whether it is hours, minutes, seconds, or calendars, week, month, can through the inverse jump pointer forms.

90 to the 20th century, independent master clocks Paul Gerber started making jump pointer 60 seconds against the watch, and later appeared against jump pointer 30 seconds, that jumped twice before to run against the 1 minute 30 seconds or even double-reverse jump pointer, a pair of 30 seconds each in the form of reverse pointer jump run time of 1 minute to complete. Can be said that the ingenious master clock thinking, jump in the reverse design of the device filling completely.

Pointer Calendar Retrograde

Vacheron Constantin Malte Perpetual Calendar Retrograde Date watch the calendar into retrograde perpetual calendar function indicators. Special calendar arrangement, it is especially looking forward to returning to once a month against the jump.

Manero-Retrograde Bao Qi as Lai in 2006 a new series of watches, in the use of power reserve, features a week, etc., but also the retrograde calendar pointer into the form, which is located 3 Kedu position, its shape is like an open fan.

Retrograde clock

Franck Muller's Double Retrograde Retrograde adopted two hour, when one has completed 12 hours after one, the other will then walk their beat, but the two complement each other, completely subverted individual dial reading habits.

Respect for the design of highly personalized Octo Tourbillon Retrograde Hours watch, clock and jump back tourbillon device exist side by side in fancy dial.

Glashütte Tourbillon Regulator watch will be unique to the contemporary classic design ingenuity of presentation, the dial on the right is a 154 ° angle to form the hour display, it is embossed with polished silver Arabic numerals, corresponding to the reverse jump hour display .

Female models also watch "reverse jump"

1999, Harry Winston introduced the bi-retrograde, with retrograde seconds, weeks pointer functionality, Ocean Lady Biretro is 2006 with this type of watch, 30 seconds against the inverse jump jump pointer and the pointer in the diamonds of the week surrounded by abnormal eye-catching.

Girard-Perregaux's Cat's Eye Bi-Retro watch, more than 300 diamonds and "reverse jump" perfect match, the top of the moon phases disc window to the night sky like a dark blue background coupled with the moon and stars pattern, with the dial below the inverse jumping second hand, a reverse double reverse jump jump week showed a move to bring a static visual contrast.

Assioma Heures Retrogrades Bvlgari watch, seemingly ordinary dial displays a unique inverse jump implicit pointer, the clock is not the circular motion, but a fan reached 6:00 on the scale of the other end after the jump.

Calendar weeks pointer Retrograde

Dewitt's Quantieme Perpetuel Sport Academia watch, especially because the use of two retrograde indicators, respectively, 3:00 and 9:00 in the position indicator and calendar week, and 12 o'clock shows the month and leap year, moon phases display at 6 o'clock .

Article Source: http://www.travelinginfos.com
Related Articles: Chronograph Treasure: Girard Perregaux High-class Lady Watch
Vacheron Constantin Launched Chronometre Royal 1907 Watch
Glashutte 1878 Moritz Grossmann Wristwatch

No comments:

Post a Comment