Man's mechanical complex

Suddenly dusk becomes bright. In front of my eyes, suddenly there was an open window behind my forehead. The golden light poured in and swiftly drowned the window frame. The center even brightened so brightly as if an angel was flying. "- Borges" Rain " 2001 due to a chance to touch the mechanical watch, then get out of control, was completely beaten by this little poison full of gears and splints. Have you ever wondered whether this was caused by the "mechanical complex of men" in the legend? After all, I did not seek to justify my deep love for it. Over the past few years one after another translated some of the exclusive information on the ROLEX brand, also has written for the BLANCPAINpinpai Chinese brochures, and published articles in a number of professional watch and magazine. This is a portrayal of the window by Borges, an old man in Argentina, in his poem Rain. If the watch has a window between its dimensions, it should definitely belong to the small calendar window above. If you want to trace the original initiator of the window calendar, IWC (IWC) deserved. In 1885, it designed and produced a pocket watch with a window display calendar. Of course, this pocket watch era has not been people's attention. It was not until 1930 that GIRARA-PERREGAUX produced the first watch with a large calendar display - using two circular windows side-by-side to display ten and one-digit figures, respectively calendar. However, like the problems IWC (IWC) encountered in 1885, this little innovation has not been given much attention. Today we see the major brands competing to launch its watch large calendar structure or the number of waves A.LANGE & SOHNE (Lange), in the early 1980s, after the merger of East Germany, A.LANGE & SOHNE (Lange ) In one fell swoop in its LANGE 1 series introduced a large calendar structure. This fact is very convenient for the wearer to read the design of the time was re-examined, and have been the major manufacturers have been taken seriously and adopted. From a technical perspective, today's big calendar structure is basically divided into: double-disc coaxial, double-disc side by side, co-axial plate, double cross, up and down overlapping cross, and the upper and lower overlap bounce structure. If a single talk about technology is too dull and boring and difficult to understand. For this reason, the simple visual effect of these structures appear on the dial effect: 1. If the two calendar numbers in the same plane and there is no level gap, then basically belong to the side by side, and will not be the upper and lower disc structure. 2. If the two numbers, although tied, but there is a vague arc connection, then basically belong to the double-disc cross structure. 3. If there is a gap between the two numbers of the calendar disk, then it must be the upper and lower disk as a technical support. Jacquelo-Hammage Geneve series Masterpiece: Jacques Droe Hommage Geneve is a good example of a large calendar. It also uses an eccentric design similar to that of A.LANGE & SOHNE, except that its local timepiece is completely placed in the 12 o'clock part of the case. The huge space at the remaining 6 o'clock position is occupied by the large calendar. The same can be learned from the formation of the upper and lower disk structure occupy the movement space slightly larger than the side-by-side calendar structure. 4. If the two numbers were fixed by a rectangular frame and the middle left with the grid or strut, then ten nine is the double disk parallel structure. Da Vinci Da Vinci Series Masterpiece: Da Vinci Da Vinci series of nations is a good double-column calendar structure with large calendar models. Its barrel-shaped dial placed 3 o'clock position of the calendar set up. And the tens digit and the single digit are respectively fixed by a rectangular raised frame. In order to take into account the double plate parallel to the gap, the two rectangular frames are also effectively blocked by the edge part. Today, the number of brands that make the calendar is very large, and the most typical one is the dual-disc side-by-side setting. However, in most cases, double-disc side by side can be easily placed in a circular movement, but only Jaeger-LeCoultre unique structure of such a structure "handling" to the rectangular movement. Its Reverso Grande Date large calendar section is the best representative. Taking into account the balance between the rectangular movement and the circular movement of the essential differences, this product will set the Reverso movement calendar set up in a certain corner of the movement. For example, this red gold Reverso Grande Date, 7 o'clock position is the direction of the large calendar structure. At the same time because of the size of the movement to take care of the size of this product used to double-disc coaxial structure for processing. Of course, the establishment of the large calendar and the watch is definitely not a European patent, Japan's Seiko also owns their belong to the Eastern thinking and culture of large calendar models. Its Kinetic Perpetual mobile energy is also loaded with a large calendar structure. And all we see above is a pure mechanical calendar set up is different, this Kinetic Perpetual table kinetic energy is converted to electrical energy, and then through the quartz shock way to drive the calendar and time to set up. Back to the opening poem, if we say in the window of the elderly Borges, we see is sprinkled into the even open eyes of the golden light. The big calendar, no doubt, made this window bigger and allowed us to receive more of that golden light.