[GO] HMT Pilot - Mechanical watch with White dial and Blue hands
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You can get a nice canvas strap off ebay.com. HMT office people had suggested me a strap wholesale dealer here in chennai, will check with that place if possible.
Its a manual winding mechanical watch (a collectors item these days
)They didnt have stock of Pocket watch last time I checked, but they were willing to bring it on order basis. If you are interested I will check with them again.
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The correct term would be mechanical or hand-wound. Automatic watches are self-winding.
Even the Automatic watches are MechanicalThe correct term would be mechanical or hand-wound. Automatic watches are self-winding.
. (HMT self winding / automatic watches can also be wound manually) Its Manual/hand winding Mechanical watch.
Oh I didn't know this! Is this only for HMT automatic watches? Because I thought the regular automatic watches have a spring that gains energy due to the movement of the wrist and thus operates. Once the movement stops, the watch stops later.
No, Its not just for HMT automatic. Many of the automatic movements support the hand winding too, I think.
Yes, Automatic watches gain energy due to the hand movement (its winding - auto winding
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http://forums.watchuseek.com/f71/le-hmt-white-pilot-status-info-thread-892609-19.html
As a Enthusiast and being a member on various forums, Being a Enthusiast myself, I have always seen that a enthusiast will go any length to help other pursue that enthusiasm but what i am seeing on below thread is as if we have invaded another people fiefdom ...
To me it appears majority of people barring few 10-20 people are bussinessman's who will sell these limited editions once they get their hand on them .
As a Enthusiast and being a member on various forums, Being a Enthusiast myself, I have always seen that a enthusiast will go any length to help other pursue that enthusiasm but what i am seeing on below thread is as if we have invaded another people fiefdom ...
To me it appears majority of people barring few 10-20 people are bussinessman's who will sell these limited editions once they get their hand on them .
This is the way it works:
1. Automatic Winding: There is a heavy rotor inside the watch, which has an awkward center of gravity, so any movement will spin it. This winds the mainspring (coil), which is slowly loosened and controlled by the balance wheel/escapement combination, else it will immediately loose all tension; ie energy.
2. Manual Winding: Same as above, but there is NO rotor, and the crown is twisted to tighten the mainspring as above. (The Pilot is like this). That is why these watches are the thinnest possible, since the rotor is not accommodated and just the movement for the drive to tighten the mainspring.
3. Some automatics can have the option of (2). So one can use the rotor (hand movement) or tighten the mainspring using the crown. The Pilot, does not offer this.
4. All the above are known as mechanical watches.
5. Kinetic (Seiko): A rotor spins and charges a high storage battery. So this is not a mechanical, but actually a hybrid between quartz and mechanical.
6. Quartz: A battery is used to power a crystal which oscillates and maintains time, and in turn the gear train. Eco-Drive and Solar watches would fall under this too.
Put me up for one too. Let me start off my watch collection with HMT.
Finally a hobby.
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