| When the spring is released current ceases to flow in the coil allowing the hairspring to return the balance. |
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| The curb pins on the regulator must be adjusted so that the hairspring hits them when it is supposed to. |
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| This design improves shock resistance and avoids the disturbances caused by touching the hairspring. |
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| Fitted with an eight-day hairspring movement, unlike previous clocks with a balance staff, this timepiece could function during transportion. |
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| The hairspring to which it is coupled gives it a regular to and fro movement and thus divides time in perfectly equal sequences. |
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| Its rotation is controlled by the hairspring, which constantly coils and uncoils, and can be seen through the open eye of the Heart Beat watches. |
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| Stainless steel, variable inertia balance wheel with 18-carat gold internal weights and adjustment screws and Breguet-Phillips hairspring. |
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| Stainless steel variable inertia balance wheel with gold screws, hairspring with Phillips terminal curve. |
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| This oscillation is not exactly a parallel to the balance wheel and hairspring of a clockwork watch, but the fact is that both use oscillations to keep track of passing time. |
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| Watchmakers have long sought to compensate for gravity's effect on the most delicate parts of the escapement — namely the pallet fork, balance wheel and hairspring — to improve accuracy. |
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| To ensure better shock resistance and exceptional reliability, the balance-cock is attached at two points and the hairspring is laser-welded at both ends, to the collet and the stud. |
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| Since the creation of the Galileo-inspired hairspring by Christiaan Huygens in 1675, the regulating organ of all mechanical watches has been based on a balance wheel and spiral-shaped torsion hairspring system. |
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| The timepiece's rate can be adjusted by modifying the moment of inertia of the balance wheel instead of repeatedly changing the active length of the hairspring. |
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| Numerous watches are presented with case open to allow viewing of the early balance wheel and hairspring. |
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| Yet 11 years on, silicon has been embraced by many other brands, particularly those of the Swatch Group, which are using it for the production of escapement parts as well as delicate balance components like the hairspring. |
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| It is intended to be the first member of a family of movements incorporating both the DIAMonSIL escapement and an adjustable oscillator fitted with a silicium hairspring. |
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| From the hairspring to the train wheel, from the case to the dial, all the links come together to form a complete manufacture of irreproachable excellence in its quality. |
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| Richard even constructed his own fretwork machines, one using a hairspring from a watch to create a cut as fine as a thin pencil line. |
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| Its mechanical movement is equipped with a perpetual rotor and the parachrom hairspring pledges increases chronometric precision. |
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