Velociphile - No longer in the building
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In an ideal world.....
"Given the regularity of the driving mechanism, the assumption would be
that the acceleration/deceleration along that 1/16" (i.e. 0.0625")
trajectory would be exactly the same every time this happens."
And unfortunately, that assumption is somewhat ambitious.
Velociphile
Reading 1/100 from a 3 Hz escapement......
Hi all, F.P. Journe once again shows an incredibly interesting out of the box thinking, but what I find most fascinating - he's doing so in a very traditional "language". The new chronogaph made me thinking though (not a bad thing at all ) - I'm sure it's...
I wonder...
I wonder if the Centigraph has been tested against any digital measures in order to validate it's results.
I have a different theory about this...
... based on what's being said about the flying minutes hand going around the dial in 16 steps. The way I understand FP Journe's claim is that the hand, being driven by both the going train and the chronograph train, exactly replicates its start/stop acti...