Shundi Posted April 25, 2009 Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 I own a Bucherer that's about 10 years old... I guess they're doing in-house movements now... This thing looks awesome! Wonder how it will perform in the long run?? http://www.carl-f-bucherer.com/en/movement/movie.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Wow that is something. Although we need watchdog to tell us just how good I'm betting she's a winner. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morlock Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Shundi, never seen this before, thanks. It's a great video of a stunning movt. It's a groundbreaking approach to the traditional rotor, it's great to have a see-through case back with a movt without a rotor that interrupt the view. Even they made an original design for the balance adjustment. Carl F Bucherer has beautiful elegant designs, I really love the Patravi TravelTec GMT, but at a reatil price of US$ 10,900 and only could wait for a good rep sometime in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff g Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 The Movement video is very cool, thanks for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corgi Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxman Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 That looks like one bad ass movement, cool video to, thanks . Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP5 Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Looks like an amazing movement but Im not feeling the watches ;( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMan24 Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Love the movement and the video...pity about the terrible voice over though....sounded like an infomercial voice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThinkBachs Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Very cool, hard to find a rep of his watches- I've looked a little but haven't seen any. Seems like I've seen the name before ona rep site, but can't remember more than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automatico Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Longines 340/350 had an outer ring gear 40+ years ago except it ran on a central bearing. I have owned a few and they were Ok. Still have one in a mystery dial watch similar to this one: http://www.bostonprivatejewelers.com/item.asp?itemid=2330 The Longines 340: http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi...mp;Longines_340 Imagine how much it will cost to get a CB movement repaired since the parts are exclusive to CB. I can imagine $2000 rotors...just because they can. That is why they make stuff like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammandel Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Cool video, but this movement to me looks like its main function is to give shock absorption to the rotor? Say a shock happens half way around the rotors turn, so.. the rotor doesnt make a full rotation and may miss out on a single wind, is this a major problem? I thought it was not shocks to the rotor but shocks and disturbances to mainspring that causes problems and timekeeping inaccuracies. Seems like a bit of a 'lets put a suspension system on it just to say its got one' marketing gimmick to me. But what do I know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shundi Posted April 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Cool video, but this movement to me looks like its main function is to give shock absorption to the rotor? Say a shock happens half way around the rotors turn, so.. the rotor doesnt make a full rotation and may miss out on a single wind, is this a major problem? I thought it was not shocks to the rotor but shocks and disturbances to mainspring that causes problems and timekeeping inaccuracies. Seems like a bit of a 'lets put a suspension system on it just to say its got one' marketing gimmick to me. But what do I know! Good points. It looks like there's also a system on the balance to make sure that the beat, etc aren't knocked out of line by a shock. As to the rotor- a rotor doesn't need to make a full rotation in order to send power to the mainspring- when the rotor rotates it moves gearing throughout its rotation so even if it moves halfway in one direction and then stops and goes the other way, etc with a bi-directional winding system there's still a net benefit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jot9011 Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Cool movement. Just have to get lightening to strike it to get it going. Could be a big problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironmarshal Posted April 27, 2009 Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Love the video. I'll admit I'd never glanced at their watches before, but some of them are pretty nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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