Back 2006 the manufacture introduced a new escapement that functioned
at a less frenetic 21,600 vph, but even at that time tests had shown
that the AP escapement was able to running perfectly at 43,200 vph or 6
hertz-even without having lubrication of the pallet stones, which would
quickly dissipate at that speed anyway. The omission of lubricant
solves a challenge that’s plagued watchmakers as long as mechanical
timepieces have existed: gumming or hardening within the oil.
This fresh escapement will depend on an invention by Parisian royal clockmaker Robert Robin (1742-1799) high quality watches.
He designed a new system in 1791 that combined the virtues of the two
well-known escapements throughout the day, so-called free-sprung
escapement and one including energy transfer via pallet fork and guard
pin as part of the precursor to the modern Swiss lever escapement as
created by Thosmas Mudge in 1759.
Audemars Piguet has succeeded in securing the aspects of both systems
in its new high-frequency escapement, solving the oil problem and
introducing a completely new and important ingredient of the overall
game: rate precision.”mehr sehen rolex uhr und Patek Philippe Astronomical Celestial
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