Then witschi machines do have a variety of error messages and in this particular case nothing is being displayed it knows there’s a problem. Personally I still think this is an error which is one of the reasons you have to pay attention to both the graphical display and the numeric display if they don’t agree you have a problem. So numerically when you exceed the display it rolls over and you see something. It’s almost like the display is a circle the top of the display is actually touching the bottom of the display. So maybe for both machines this isn’t considered an error when the graphical display still shows something. When is an error not an error? On paper tape machines if the line was heading off one edge it would then appear on the other edge. Then I’m assuming based on where the stud was an 8.5 ms that this is now exceeded the 9.9 ms of both machines. Then pushing the stud all the way to the maximum both machines do something differently now. If you weren’t paying attention to the 8.5 would you notice that there’s a problem with either display? So for a beat error 8.5 ms is very bad but casually the graphical display isn’t agreeing and actually looks much nicer than it did at 4.0 ms. So now we get the most interesting part of this experiment moving the stud to 8.5 ms we get a display that casually looks outstanding. The witschi machine does have a way of adjusting the resolution but I did not make that adjustment. Numerically both machines will go to 9.9 ms but at their current graphical resolution that would exceed the size of their displays. Casually everything looks fine but there is a problem. So in the previous discussion 5 ms was an issue so I set the stud so both machines indicated 4.0 ms. Then picture of the balance assembly so you can see were the stud is. Both machines almost identical for the beat error. Both microphones on the same watch at the same time. So the starting pictures both machines side-by-side. They will not be the same because they actually function differently they average differently and it’s hard to get them to synchronize off the exact same part of the waveform at the same time but they should be reasonably close. Both machines are set the same lift angle same averaging time both machines should more or less be the same. This unfortunately will result in quite a few images which probably will be in no particular order which is why I’ve label them and copious quantity of text that hopefully is readable and possibly makes sense hopefully.Ĭhinese 1000 timing machine with a Swiss Witschi watch expert two machine. Then because I’m curious and because I now have a Chinese 1000 timing machine I’m going to do an experiment.
Previously the beat was the issue and for that discussion I have a link at the bottom. This sort of thing has come up before as I mentioned in my message above. So the timing machine says your watches running a little bit slow roughly 15 minutes a day is it actually running 15 minutes a day slow looking at the hands? Then visually looking at the balance wheel does it really look like 270° of amplitude? It also be helpful to have a picture of looking down at the balance assembly. then in your description you said you pushed things to the max, beat is in the middle not at a max which is why you're probably grossly out of beat right now. It works much better if you would visually put it in beat reasonably close and then fine tune with the timing machine. The problem with using a timing machine only to put a watch in beat is there is no ± it's so easy to go past and get hopelessly lost. So visually the graphical display the lines look to be far apart numerically it does not agree that tells us it's probably extremely out of beat. Then it's come up in a prior discussion the Chinese machines have issues of things go to extreme the numbers and the display doesn't always agree. It would be nice to know which watch you trying to regulate? then they do have a rather nice price for a Timegrapher 1000 Now it does have its location that may or may not actually exist? although if you do look on the website they do say they're based here Los Angeles, California.