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Admiration for visible keyless works
It has not started that way for me during my early days of collection but as I continue along this journey, I have become subconsciously attracted to watches with visible keyless works mechanism, and began to collect them. Below are the ones I have and will receive later, and also some others that got away which are painfully beautiful. Hope you enjoy these pics.
Series 5
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1967
Seconde Vive (pic from his IG)
SBCA (pic from Simon Brett's website)
AK-06 (pic from SJX)
Vincent Deprez Tourbillon (pic from his website)
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Admiration for visible keyless works
It has not started that way for me during my early days of collection but as I continue along this journey, I have become subconsciously attracted to watches with visible keyless works mechanism, and began to collect them. Below are the ones I have and wi...
First of All Thank You for posting these and Congrats on All of Them 😊👍
When you say "visible keyless works mechanism" what does that mean?
Thanks only the first 2 are mine 🙏🏻
but appreciate your comments. Early pocket watches used a separate key to wind the mainspring to set the time. Modern watches use a system of gears and levers that allows the user to wind the watch and set the time using the crown (the knob on the side) w...
Here is a picture of a modern watch using key
Cyril Brivet-Naudot's Eccentricity Pic from SJX ...
I like such themed collection.
it requires strong will power. 😆 Some amazing pieces... Thanks for sharing, Michael.
Very interesting!
I was just thinking the other day, looking at pictures of a Roger Smith like your first one, that the keyless works are the final frontier of mechanical watch aesthetics. What I mean is, the keyless works is harder to make beautiful than the plates, bridg...
That's indeed a good summary
of how I feel about visible keyless works. Also with displaying the full mechanism, the watchmaker likely has to black polish the entire mechanism otherwise it would not look great. Thanks for chipping in really appreciate it 🙏🏻🙏🏻