Visualisation Escapement

[Neilw3030]

As per the title really
Just had Cousins latest monthly offers pamphlet through the post, and on the front cover it shows what looks like part of an mechanical movement, called a visualisation escapement, to be used with a quartz movement?
Is this to put a quartz movement on to give it a fake self winding look for use with open caseback??
Anybody know please

[abraxas]

Any chance of taking a pic of the cover. I have never heard of a Visualisation Escapement.

[zelig]

I was intrigued by this also... here's the pic


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[abraxas]

Thanks. Never seen it before. The opposite of dead-seconds. A quartz can now identify as a mechanical.


The world has gone bonkers!

[Neilw3030]

Just looking at it again, is it to convert a quartz into a mechanical small seconds, at 33.5mm I guess for a panerai esq style?

[abraxas]

I think the quartz (with hour and minute) will be a completely separate module. What we see is again a separate module with a short spring that just keeps the visible balance wheel going and small seconds. It will look like an open-heart auto but have the advantages of quartz.






PS A bit like a spring drive... oops ducking... getting hat.