Horological Meandering

Every now and then I find a topic or theme in horology that awakens my curiosity (high frequency watches: has been one). The latest one are deadbeat seconds watches, also known as jumping seconds or seconde morte pieces. Unlike the high frequency topic, ...  

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Makes future searches a bit easier 😊

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Not sure I get you? But yes, I plan to update it as new things come along 👍🏻

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But I promise to keep updating the original post 👍🏻

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Three or four I am seriously thinking about 👍🏻

Gronefeld , FPJ , Moser , DB or when i do get lucky one day (money wise ) Greubel F. 🙏🏻

And maybe not the same ones to start with Btw. the Moser ones were products of the 1950s (the Saltofix from 1955 to 1956, for the Esculab I do not know), so a different Moser from what you know today

You know i am not into vintage yet so your right 😉

So you don't unduly worry your AD Yet if you get Moser to make a modern reissue, I would be more than happy

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Thanks . But for now i will stick to indie brands or my collection will be out of control i think 😉

Happy new year !

Will however not be my first JLC - a non-deadbeat seconds one is already on its way 😊 Thanks for sharing yours!

Allows for a selection of either jump or sweep. (Press at the 2 o'clock position) ...  

Had it under Paul Gerber in both the steel and gold varieties (416/410) 👍🏻 Some early ones had the switch operated by the crown, before the pusher got used 😊

TB88 Cal A&S5003 Chronograph True Beat Cal A&S7103 True Beat Retrograde Cal A&S6008 TB Cal A&S6103

Thanks for adding these, will put them into the sheet ASAP 👍🏻

It gains a power reserve complication in addition to all that the Konrad sports. Also has a rather charming solid silver dial with romans. Disclosure, this belongs to a dear friend who added a couple of features, the hinged solid gold case back and a caba...  

Am sitting at MIA, so WiFi in the Amex Centurion lounge is a bit iffy! Cheers, Tim ...  

Not sure what happened to them in the first post - they appear to be in but don’t display 🤷🏻‍♂️

Have added it into the original post 👍🏻

Powered by a Habring2 deadbeat movement. www.erwinsattler.com .html#!div1 Regards, skyeriding

Have amended the original post accordingly 👍🏻

i had these two pieces a number of years ago, and would spend quite some time marveling at the second hand movement. Then I auctioned them off. Beautiful pieces, but the scarcity of the parts made me sell them. ...  

I have read that in earlier times watchmakers simply exchanged the 1040 movements with the 1030s, so as to avoid service issues. Such a waste 🤷🏻‍♂️ But I do understand that spare parts availability must be a nightmare...

I have to say I was surprised at how many there have been / there are. Habring and JLC are well known for the complication but it seems there’s so much more in this direction 😊

It is certainly one that has been intriguing me for a while, too. Especially like the fairly rare boutique edition, with the blue dial. As usually my timing was somewhat off, and now chasing one on the secondary market is proving difficult

Sometimes I think: yes, a quartz look alike is fun (and under the radar, although I highly doubt non watch people would ever notice either way...). But more often I think: why on earth would I want a second hand that reminds me of quartz movements every s... 

As a one-second period was very common and reflected by the movement of the second hand. (Quartz is merely similar to that and the seconds don’t have to jump but saves energy) Exhibit A: Bulova Accuquartz - smooth sweep seconds Which do you prefer: hummmm...  

Although those clocks are before my time so there is no positive emotional connection to the dead beat second. Apart from hearing that sound at my grandfolks. 😬

Not into them myself, although the children love them at their grandparents place, especially winding them. My wife is adamantly against, though, claiming watches are more than enough 😉

Or a Christiaan vd Klaauw clock but try finding one...

Bulova Precisionist Watch, only $200 delivered today with smooth sweeping hand due to 262000 MHz crystal. Said to keep time to a few seconds a year. Blue dial too! Buy one of these and you’ll say “I love that classy deadbeat Gronefeld with second hand tha...  

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Went for the Accutron II Spaceview and in spite of it having the lower grade Precisionist movement due to the smaller case size its accuracy is amazing. Need to check but it was around 15 secs / 18 months or so.

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I supposed it was to differentiate the back then new, expensive and exciting technology (as quartz tended to be initially) but I guess the more mundane one is probably more correct, as always 😊

Not sure to what extent accuracy is affected in the end 🤷🏻‍♂️

So right for some and not for others 😊 And I fully agree that most people don’t notice what you’re wearing anyway. I guess with a dead seconds watch you reduce the chances of noticing from between slim and remote to almost nil. So possibly not very much. ... 

Like high frequency movements, deadbeat seconds... Like GLau on enameled dials, like Crown Comfort on GP, Bill on dive watches, Andrew on orange accents, like myself on various subjects... How did I start on categorizing GS watches, and my worst / best ex...  

That’s the beauty of sharing the passion with like minded people. Who knows what comes next - fortunately it takes some time to do, otherwise there’d be too many of those oddities 😉 And one has to say, you’ve been a shining example for us to follow in thi... 

. . . as it's one of the rarest and scarcest Omega chronometers. I believe they were issued contemporaneously with Rolex's Tru-Beat, around '53 or '54. The story is they were so unreliable that Norman Morris, the US agent, issued a recall. (That would exp... 

I believe the recall you mentioned led to very few remaining on the market. I have read somewhere that the grand total is 17 pieces but cannot verify that 🤷🏻‍♂️ The chances of bagging that one are certainly between slim and remote 🙁

. . . in circulation as mythical. The population is likely in the two-figure range, but doubtful it can be nailed down that precisely. The contemporary ref 14311 chronometer (cal 352) was probably built in comparable numbers, but they pop up every now and... 

At this point it’s unlikely one can pin it down with such precision. Let’s call it the rarest of the lot and we’ll certainly be right 😉

WELL DONE

Glad you appreciate it and I hope it’s helpful 👍🏻

I chose the Lange model in Rue de la Paix Boutique... ...  

And glad if you found the post helpful 👍🏻