Mechanics of Wrist Watches

       Timepiece manufactured to be worn by individuals on their wrists with the help of straps or bracelets are called wrist watches. Latest technology has made it possible to experience the taste of witnessing day, date, month and year together with other useful and amazing functions with the help of just one single watch. Most inexpensive watches shows merely quartz movements and are used for the purpose of time keeping only where as expensive, classy and dear watches are more than just a time keeping device as aesthetics and artistic looks of the watch enchant the beholding eye. Most of these fascinating and eye-catching watches worked through the mechanical movements powered by springs adjusted in the watch.

       These mechanical movements are usually less reliable than the quartz movement used in ordinary watches. Before the freedom to wear watches on wrist, watches (usually attached to a chain or fob) had to be kept in the pockets as they were really big in size. The mechanism, to measure and display the time, can be mechanical, electronic or the mixture of the preceding movements. Nowadays watches with electronic movements are greater in use though mechanical hands on the face of the watch are used to indicate time. Along with being a time devices, watches provide extraordinary features beyond the basics including alarms, calculator, and remote control of any electronic device. Some complicated watches also have embedded features of a chronograph (watch’s ability to function as a time watch) and moon phase (Ability to display lunar phase).