athan Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Hi I'm very new into Pams. I'll willing to get an ultimate Pam111 with swiss hand wind movement. In the gen, how should the seconds hand sweep? In steps of second's like quartz? Or continuously like in an automatic? Thanks a lot for your help. Athan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b16a2 Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 They don't sweep as smoothly as a UPO, or similar watch movement, but due to the seconds hand being much smaller, it doesn't look 'ticky' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 The swiss (low beat) 6497 runs with 18.800 bph, the high beat asian version with 21.600 bph like the gen. If you compare this with the 28.800bph of an ETA 2428-II you know what to expect. If you devide these numbers by 3600 you get the steps the second hand will do per second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athan Posted June 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 The swiss (low beat) 6497 runs with 18.800 bph, the high beat asian version with 21.600 bph like the gen. If you compare this with the 28.800bph of an ETA 2428-II you know what to expect. If you devide these numbers by 3600 you get the steps the second hand will do per second. Thanks for your very scientific reply Would that mean that it should have a smooth continuous sweeping (even with lesser steps) or a tick-tack quartz like motion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAMman Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 The 6497-1 actually beats at 18000 bph which is 5 ticks per second, the 6497-2 beats at 21600 which is 6 ticks per second while most quartz tick only once per second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir-Lancelot Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 It is a sweeping tick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athan Posted June 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 (edited) Thank you all guys for your replies! I have checked this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOKcsnljESE and it seems that the seconds hand is sweeping and not ticking. DSN also told me that his 111h has a sweeping seconds hand. Lets hope that it will be a nice and lucky watch at the end! Edited June 13, 2008 by athan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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