Special Types of Watches That Sweep
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God, that sweep is to die for.
i absolutely love grand seiko spring drive but with the few problems being that since the hand is moving constantly this generates a LOT of wear to the part resulting in having to send for service more frequent, grand seiko service do not usually have good rep too. another thing is the capacitors will die out at some point (20 yrs) bit low life for a luxury watch
@@barrengton I thought constant motion would mean less wear since the parts aren't abruptly colliding and stopping with each tick.
@@Baronnax while there would be less colliding, however there is only one component that is colliding which is the the balance jewel as opposed to all gears running constantly in GS, resulting in shorter service interval. on GS website it recommend 3-4 years instead of 5-10 years. these service can cost somewhere between 700- more than 1k. while GS is such a marvel of engineering, the cost to keep them running just doesn't do it for me.
@@barrengtonThat’s good to know. Thanks for the info.
Got my daily dose of GS 💯
Electrostatic movement by Accutron that uses mini turbines that generate electrostatic charge to power a vibrating crystal. Sweeps 4x a sec, giving it a smooth sweep.
Having owned a Spring Drive watch I can say they are incredible, almost hypnotic.
Great video, but the spring drive movement actually has a glide wheel instead of a balance wheel and balance spring
Yeah he said main spring and showed a balance wheel (which of course spring drive doesn't have)
man Bulova makes awesome ass movements
Precisionist is awesome
Movement is awesome but dials are really ugly!
@@pratikkalani6289I finally understand their logo but i just dont like it its a tuning fork but its just not an attractive symbol for a brand
@pratikkalani6289 I used to agree but the Jetstar dials are pretty nice. Especially that gold/yellow and the red dial
Nah seiko did this way before, like 5s21 movement in 1988
Where's the 70's tuning fork watches? that 300hz second hand sweep is to die for
If only Bulova would put that movement in a watch that was worth a damn (sapphire crystal, 100m water resistance, screw-down crown, good finishing, understated/elegant design). They could be selling watches hand over fist, and I, for the life of me, can't figure out why they don't want tremendous amounts of money.
Absolutely, at this point may as well get a fading that's worth a damn and Frankenstein their movement into it
I agree. I have seen a few Bulova watches I like, but most are hideous. It is really strange how they can make so many truly ugly watches.
The frederique constant monolithic manufacture is just like if not better than the spring drive. And the FC is fully mechanical
Honorable mention is the Seiko VH 31: Not even close to as smooth, but a quartz movement with 4 ticks a second vs the normal 1 tick
I expected to see it in the video..?
i always use vh31 in my custom watches as it is cheaper and still makes the watch looks good
My bulova accutron II is great for the sweep alone. Now to find a strap i love........
There are also the electromechanical watchs from the 60s and 70s. They use a battery instead of a spring to power its mechanical movement.
I actually own one of these-it’s a 1968 Timex Electric. The second hand only ticks once per second.
Just bought a Wolbrook Worldtime Skin diver mecca quartz. Very accurate and beautiful watch. Was únder 300 bucks and I truly
love it
Mecha quartz only sweeps when chronograph is active though, if you want a quartz to fool you inot thinking it's mechanical get the Precisionist
Grand seiko supermacy
You missed the accutron tuning fork movement
“and a mainspring” zooms into hairspring
Thankyou for the information 😊❤
You missed some, like seiko actually did some sweep quart movement, like 5s21 that sweep insanely smooth, or vh31, 4 beats a second.
it's not invented by bulova
What is the watch in the second 20?
Even a mechanical watch is ticking along next to the incredible glide of a spring drive
My Apple Watch on the California dial has a perfectly smooth sweeping second hand.
I also love all my mechanical watches, but I often watch my Apple Watch second hand and think… this is smoother than a Spring Drive 😂
Fantastic overview (and the reason I didn't needle you about ignoring GS in the last video...had a feeling you were cooking something like this up.
The Accutron: 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
What about the Bulova Accutron the old school ones those sweeps were insanely smooth :)
Seiko also makes some quartz movements with sweeping seconds hands I have found them in watches starting at $30.
Thanks a lot for the information.
We have a 8$ wall clock at home with super smooth sweeping seconds, any idea what type of movement it has? And also if it is that cheap to make, why not wrist watches come with similar movement?
That wall clock is an ordinary quartz. The reason it sweeps is because there is ample space for a big battery + it is relatively easy to replace depleted batteries, as sweeping is way more energy consuming than ticking for quartz watches. When it comes to wristwatches, the challenge is to make maximum use of the energy packed into the small battery.
Don’t forget the Frederique Constant Monolithic
What about tuning fork watches? They seem almost the same as a spring drive
There were Electronic watches in the 60s (Hamilton, Timex, Stellaris) , Bulova's tunning fork accutron in the 50s-70s that humms insted of ticking, and now mecaquartz are used in second hands without cronometers. There are Casios, invictas and pagani design wstches with swipping second hands.
I saw a Pagani design skeleton watch for $200. Is it actually any good?
I’m probably gonna get the bulova precisionist as my first real watch with the black dial and swap out the strap for a black nato one
It literally is a pure sweep, it does not tick at all thanks to how the movement works. The second hand never stops, but is instead slowed down electromagnetically by the small electric charge generated by the escapement.
There’s also the mechanical deadbeat
Thank you good sir
Love a sweeping Second hand!!
Is there a watch that has its second hand being in an infinite different positions, being a continuous movement?
I love my precisionist there are zero cooler movements in that price bracket
Spring drive isn’t a quartz movement. It is a hybrid system. It would be like calling a cyborg a robot
Do All brands produce sweep quartz? If please make a vdo on all brands like timex , casio , tissot, seiko ,bulovo , like affordable brands
Dude, I caught those San Andreas Sound effects. Noice.
I have citizen buttery smooth second movement
First off, the Bulova does not move smoothly because the quartz crystal oscillates at a higher speed, that just improves the accuracy of the watch. All quartz powered watches can have smooth movement if they are designed to, it just takes more battery power to do so.
Second, functionally speaking, a dead beat second hand is better than a smooth second hand as you can precisely see when the seconds pass.
Mechanical watches have smooth movement because it is hard to make them beat once per second. It is a defect of the design, not something to be lauded.
That being said, I do love my mechanical watches despite the smooth but vague movement of the second hand.
Thanks for the insight! Fair points
What is your opinion on the new Vero Somkey 44’ edition automatic? It has a seiko movement, sapphire crystal, and a 10 year warranty. Is it worth $450?
I have this watch and couldnt figure out the movement the other day lol
What's that super expensive citizen called? That movement is wild.
What do you think of vario watches?
What's the reference of the bulova in your vid?
Frederique Constant Monolith??
GS spring drive is too clean
What's up bro I just ordered a new watch it's a MERKUR/Pierre paulin jumphour automatic it's Japanese with a seagull movement probably not the greatest watch ever made but it looks awesome it's gonna take forever to get here 😢
Where’s the accutron?
Ill stick to my Casio's
Idc about the sweep so much as I do the ticking noise. Can’t handle that ticking noise.
Spring drive is not a quartz watch. There are two type of hybrid technologies. Kinetic which is quart with elements of mechanic movement, Spring drive which is mechanical with elements of quart. With Spring drive there is no battery, so it doesn't qualify as quartz.
It literally has a quartz crystal in it that's powered by electricity made by the spring unwinding. It's not a "non-quartz" watch just because it has an alternator powering the quartz instead of a battery, lol.
You have no idea what you're talking about. It's a mechanical movement with an electric quartz regulator instead of a mechanical swiss lever escapement.
You did leave out tuning fork movements...
Man really said 'only 32000 times per second' 😶
He said "just over" not "only"
i NEEED a grand seiko
They set Bulova up for failure
Then why is rolex so special when people talk about the second hand?
Please do a short video on hmt watches pleasee Indian vintage first mechanical watch or first ever Indian watch
Unfortunately these days it's hard to get a real HMT watch outside of India (unlike Seagull, the Chinese watch company). HMT website won't ship outside India and EBay is full of fake HMT watches... but those watches were great back in the day, I agree with you.
Are you gonna post this in EVERY VIDEO??
Also someone please talk about the quality of Titan mechanical skeleton watches in comparison to the good ones. Like how are they able to offer them for $150-300?
Even some Casios have a sweeping hand.
Can you mention the model number?
@@yuganshdhingra7647 sw300 and sw320 are the ones I know.
Don’t think so.
Why do some cheap quartz clocks sweep like mechanical watches? 🤔
Replying the same question thrid time :) Sweeping is way more energy consuming than ticking for quartz watches. These AA powered quartz wall clocks sweep because there is ample space for a big battery + it is relatively easier to replace depleted batteries. When it comes to wristwatches, the challenge is to make maximum use of the energy packed into the small battery.
I was just wondering about this. Cheap AA powered wall hanging clocks can have a sweeping second hand, but even high dollar quartz watches all seem to tick 1/sec. I'd hoped purely battery-powered, smooth sweeping watches were more common. You can buy some really nice mechanical watches for the price of even the cheapest Bulova Precisionist model, so I don't see myself ever buying one. I also know of some watches that, like the mecha-quartz, have both quartz and mechanical movements, but the mechanical is just to have a sweeping second hand purely for show. It's not attached to the minut or hour hand at all. Fossil makes one. At least the chronograph watches serve a purpose, but how often do you actually use that feature on a watch that has one?
I too had this question for years. That is it not possible to create smooth sweeping second hands in a battery powered watch? Are most Fossil skeleton watches not actually fully mechanical?
@@danlightened idk about most, since they have a lot of models lol. But I know they have plenty of models that are fully mechanical. I got one as a gift and like it well enough.
There was the same question above. Sweeping is way more energy consuming than ticking for quartz watches. These AA powered quartz wall clocks sweep because there is ample space for a big battery + it is relatively easy to replace depleted batteries. When it comes to wristwatches, the challenge is to make maximum use of the energy packed into the small battery.
Also, very expensive high end quartz watches brag about their insane precision, like The Citizen AQ6110-10l being within 1sec/year and Grand Seiko SBGP007 5 sec/year. And when it comes to setting the time and checking for its accuracy later on, ticking is more suitable then sweeping.
Fp journe's quartz?
If only Bulova would put that movement in something that's actually wearable I'd be all over it.
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I do not understand the attractiveness of the sweep. 🤷🏻♂️
Spring drive is garbage. GS watered down their brand by offering SD. It has an IC and wires inside, it is essentially a quartz technology mechanical mechanism inside. Over engineered for absolute no reason. It is a highway robbery. GS should just focus on manual wound and automatic movement.
And high end quartz. Because they have absolutely beautiful pure high end quartz pieces.
First again ?
GS is overrated af
No it's not. They are a fully vertically integrated watchmaker. They have movements no one else can even figure out how to make like the Spring Drive, the Kodo Force Tourbillion, and the 9F quartz, and their dials are absolutely brilliant in person. All that for the price of the cheapest and most boring looking Rolex available
@@fark69that's true I like there watches besides there dive watches are ugly as hell but they are overrated just like rolex en more no denying en many grand sekio fans are so toxic it puts rolex fans too shame, it's sad but true if you have seen it en heard it.
@@PixelWelding Sure the fans may suck (I don't know personally), but they actually do a lot of technical achievement unlike many of the Swiss brands who just coast on "being a Swiss watch" to rake in huge cash. If you want to be pedantic, all mechanical watches are overrated, but of those, GS is, factually, less overrated than Rolex. And yeah many of their watches are ugly and ridiculously priced. Rolex don't make many ugly watches by comparison.
“their watches”
“their dive watches”
“Rolex”
“and many”
“and heard it”
There, corrected your rant.
Please use interpunction too.
Speaking about overrated, Swiss watches are completely overrated.
And Seiko diver’s look the business, real tool watches instead of the fancy schmancy, dainty Swiss designs.