Hours -12: The revolution to be presented by Zenith will look (and work) entirely different than what we are used to...
... but still very emotional - the final teaser, tomorrow the full story! Magnus ...
Hmm... Let me guess... [nt]
I think the watch contains a large central silicon balance wheel with low amplitude while having a high frequency? I think I saw it before in Biver's wrist on one of the reports on thewatchestv... But it was said that it'll be a new movement for Tag Heuer...
I wonder at the reliability of the ultra-fine blades of these silicon movements
Surely a good drop could break something whereas dropping a Rolex on a carpet basically is a non-event.
Yep, was thinking the same... And who is maintaining it in 50 years? [nt]
This is the general problem I have with this new "nano" technology stuff. Somehow, the emotional attraction gets lost. I even cannot explain why exactly. It is like you have an oldtimer car that gets a new state of the art engine...
Remember the time when people wanted to ban bicycles because they were dangerous and cars because horses were better?
So to me these are dinosaur-anxieties (if you will). I say: embrace progress!
This is like the unions saying no self-driving cars or trucks because it will put drivers out of work
But we don't recall all the carriage drivers and stable boys (and horses) which went out of work. Or think about perhaps 1 million lives lost annually due to accidents which might be saved by safer vehicles. No progress without pain, it seems.
That is not a big problem as the deflection is very small...
They have been working on this for quite some time and think they have such problems pretty well taken care of. They know everyone will be looking to try to find the weaknesses of the system. I have not yet seen anything, but from some fuzzy pictures take...
this replaces the balance wheel + escapement wheel.. all in one
without friction etc, crazy clever development, wonderful, aesthetically i would stick to balance wheel, palet-pin/anchor, escapement, i like it a lot but technically, this is a revolution. well done Zenith. oops, i forgot to mention, extreeeeeme accuracy...