Moon watches have always been the most gentle and elegant of watches. In recent years, mechanical watches are quite popular in the market, and the vivid picture is loved by consumers.
But how to adjust the moon phase table, it is a lot of love table people.
Xiaobian collected and sorted out some information about the adjustment of the lunar phase table, hoping to help you.
Where is the lunar phase apparatus?
Almost all good things are on the dial.
The moon phase display is on the dial there is an umbrella shaped window, mostly set in the position of twelve or six o ‘clock, through the small window to show the new moon, the upper chord, the full moon and the lower chord of the moon phase changes.
How often does the moon phase chart adjust?
How long does the lunar phase chart last?
It takes about 29.5 days for the phases of the moon to move once a week, so this type of watch uses 59 gears to show the age from 0 to 29.5 months, which produces an error of one day every 33 months or so, so it has to be reset after three years.
Lunar phase performance for the table factory can be a simple introduction to the watchmaking process, the production technology is not too difficult, and more accurate than the calendar performance often touch the size of the month to adjust the problem to be accurate, but the details see the true chapter, Patek Philippe a lunar phase watch can be accurate up to 122 years will appear one day error,
A.ange even recently produced a limited edition 1815 Moonphase that needed to be adjusted in 1000 years.
How to adjust the lunar phase chart?
Adjustment is more complex, but the moon tables is not like calendar performance, you can refer to the day’s date Numbers for correction, the best way is to control the instruction instructions do adjust, but if you don’t have the instructions and adjust in the ten round in May as a benchmark, when will the moon table graphics on the moon in the middle, and then according to the lunar calendar calculations do adjustment, for instance,
If you want to adjust to the second day of the lunar calendar, the end of the last month is 29 days, then adjust 29 minus 15, plus 2 can, but if the lunar calendar has 30 days, then add 1 more day can, this is usually located in the phase of the case side of the quick button operation, or through the rotation of the way to adjust.
Special reminder:
Moon phase watch adjustment should avoid the time is not suitable for fast adjustment device clockwise to avoid clockwise calculated from 8 o ‘clock to 4 o ‘clock interval, because the mechanical watch from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., the gear of the fast dial button is in a close chimeric state, the use of the fast dial button is easy to make the machine failure, in addition, there are some special watch,
For example, in Blancpain’s lunar phase watch, it is not allowed to use the moon phase speed dial button at 12 p.m., so the alternative is to turn the hour hand back to before 8 o ‘clock or after 4 o ‘clock, and then use the speed dial button to adjust the date or moon phase, and then adjust the time.
The moon phase endows the cold mechanical watch with a tender feeling, although it is the most “useless” complex function, but this romantic feeling is fascinating. With the unique appearance of the moon, the cycle of the moon, the cycle of the moon on the surface of the disk, taste the beauty of the sky on the wrist.
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