Horological Meandering

For a Moser Perpetual 1: instantaneous For a GO Senator Perpetual: about 6 hours. The change started a little after 7 PM. Here's the 29th showing perfectly centered... You can tell it is for the current year and not a leap year due to the black dot in the...  

for the Moser. So much for "instantaneous" - with a whole minute too late - and still the date had not sprung! At least according to your picture. I tried to but could not stay up that late for the ceremony, although on the following morning was pleased (... 

I failed to notice that it was the first picture in a video. ;)

but indeed, instantaneous :)

After all, it must advance three steps the disc of the units and two steps the disc of the tens (as well as day and month... the moon disc moves at about 4 AM): really a hard work... and long enough to appreciate it! Best, massi

P1 is so charming!

I really like this Moser. The GO is not bad either;) Cheers Francois from Down Under

. . . when it matters. That won't happen again! Embarrassed, Art

On my AP Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar it switched over at midnight except for the month which took a few minutes longer. I'll post the pics in the AP forum later this week. Regards, Ed

I put on my perpetual only yesterday, so I passed the February/March change by means of the quicksetting mechanism. Normally, it needs about two hours for this. Marcus

While the Moser video was shot in real time on Feb 28, I did advance the time about 6 hours to 11:55 PM, after getting the lighting and camera all set up. I wanted to make I captured the changeover - which had a better chance of success if done before enj... 

Indeed the Moser perpetual is impressive and quite subtle. I may have to rethink my wishlist... Thanks for this video. Best, Stan