Uhrwerke – Eine Leidenschaft
Today, I am once again stepping onto thin ice. Just like in my article about Oiling Watch Movements. As with oiling, every watchmaker and watch enthusiast has their own philosophy when it comes to cleaning watch movements. Here, I describe a method that has proven itself to me as a hobbyist for many years. It makes no claim to be universally valid!
Audemars Piguet celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2025. Exceptionally, this article is not about a movement, but about the book that Audemars Piguet published in October 2025 to celebrate this event:
The Watch – Stories and Savoir Faire
To remove a movement from the case, the crown with the winding stem often has to be removed after opening the case. In most cases this is quite simple, but there are also a few more complicated ways.
In modern wristwatch movements, such as the ETA 2824-2, the stop-seconds function, also called hacking seconds, is largely standard. This means that when setting the hands, the second hand is stopped in order to set the watch as accurately as possible to the second. Here I present two pocket watches from the period between 1930 and 1940 that also have this complication.
Regulator dials stand out at first glance. Where there are usually at least two hands turning in the center of the dial, namely those for the hours and minutes, there is only one hand, the one for the minutes. The hour hand, like the second hand, is a small hand above or below the center. What is this good for and where does it come from?
The first part of this article about the Pforzheim-based company Kasper & Co. was about its history: Kasper: Watches and Movements – Part 1
In this second part, we take a look at the company’s watch movements.
