geo1nah2a Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 I am very happy to share with you people my latest find. . I always wondered if I should buy myself one of the machines that our watchsmiths have to calibrate and rate our lovely watches. I had enough of trying to figure out by trial and error the correct beat, and then wait for hours to see if I can get my watches in better rate. Yes, you can have your WSmith do it for you, but I have found out that this is a new hobby for me.. Like a jigsaw puzzle, or jenga Long story short, I found there is a software solution for it! Read on, and don't skip to the links The software I found can do the following: Features include: * Paper tape watch timing machine emulation with numeric and disk type readout. * Any beat rate from 1 tick per 30s (Atmos) to 400 cycles per second (tuning fork). * Amplitude measurement of lever and co-axial escapement; lift angle 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerstone Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 Interesting idea! Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 Worthy of installing Parallels and XP on my Mac, I believe. I'll be back later. Edit: or grabbing my Dell laptop. Duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sssurfer Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 AWESOME!!! I too stumbled upon the eTimer escapement analyzer a while ago, but got discouraged from its price. So I was currently considering freewares like Visual Analyzer, WTM (Windows Timing Machine) or Winscope. Is your method working with the demo version of eTimer, I suppose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo1nah2a Posted June 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 AWESOME!!! I too stumbled upon the eTimer escapement analyzer a while ago, but got discouraged from its price. So I was currently considering freewares like Visual Analyzer, WTM (Windows Timing Machine) or Winscope. Is your method working with the demo version of eTimer, I suppose? Yes it is working. It just not 'live'. You have to record something, and then use this recording to assess how you did. I don't mind, and have had great succes in calibrating my PO from silix with the 2836 to very good standards. Plus it is a very nice tool to understand your calibers. I was shocked by how steady is the beat of a swiss 6497 in my pam183 that I purchaed from Paul like ages ago. It still ticks slowly but steady like a tank. Give it a try, and give us your comments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sssurfer Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Ok, got it: operating offline rather than online, and saving 299+VAT GBP. Well done! I'll try it and post about it ASAP (just, I think I'm going to use CoolEdit rather than Audacity for recording and amplifying as I am more accustomed with it). Great post, thanks once again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chubbchubb Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 I am going to try this too... In the meantime... there are a couple of similar solutions (microphone hardware and pc software) on the market (which I found when doing some research on the subject last year). Of course most of them still carry pricetags that only make sense for the serious collector. Nonetheless none of these even comes close in price to an Elma, a Witschi or a Greiner, which are all well beyond 1.200$ These links are in German... http://anonym.to/?http://pczw.uhren-mikl.c...hp?PC_Zeitwaage -> 319 Euro http://anonym.to/?http://www.waschke-bochum.de/index_de.html -> 375,40 Euro and this "do-it-yourself" here for your techno geeks... http://anonym.to/?http://mikrocontroller.c...e/Zeitwaage.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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