Complication (clockwork)

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Audemars Piguet watch with complications

One complication in clocks describes additional functions of a mechanical clockwork that go beyond the usual display of hours , minutes and seconds . They increase the price and the functional value.

description

Complications can be understood as modules that use the movement, but are not part of it, and which take on functions such as date display , outsize date, jumping date change, retrograde displays, moon phase display (display of the current position of the moon in a dial section), moon age display ( indication) called for reading the number of days since the last new moon), full calendar (complete calendar with display of day, date and month, even full calendar, calendar , four-year calendar , Perpetual Calendar , chronometer regulating , stop seconds, chronograph , rattrapante , Alarm clock , Repetition ( Minute repeater , hour repeater , etc.), musical mechanism , equation of time or world time indication with up to 24 time zones .

If there are many complex complications built into a wrist or pocket watch , this watch is called a grand complication or complicated watch.

At this point it should be noted that the tourbillon (French for “whirlwind”) is also often viewed as a complication - which is not entirely true, however. The tourbillon is a device that can be found predominantly in wrist and pocket watches and is intended to correct the negative influence of gravity on the accuracy. Since a watch is always moved differently on the wrist, the tourbillon consequently has no positive effect and cannot therefore be regarded as a real watch complication. Watch manufacturers build it anyway to make a watch more valuable.

The additional modules are also called cadratures ; they are built by cadraturists .

The term "complication" was in English for the SmartWatch - Operating Systems Wear OS from Google , watchOS of Apple , and Tizen from Samsung taken over; it is a kind of widget for virtual clock faces with which additional information can be displayed.

literature

  • Otto Böckle, Wilhelm Brauns: Textbook for the watchmaking trade. Work skills and materials. 8-10 Edition. Wilhelm Knapp, Halle (Saale) 1951, (reprint, edited by Michael Stern. Heel, Königswinter 2010, ISBN 978-3-86852-288-4 ).
  • Hermann Brinkmann: Introduction to watchmaking (= The watchmaking school. Vol. 2). 10th unchanged edition. Wilhelm Knapp, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-87420-010-8 .
  • George Daniels : Watchmaking. Updated 2011 edition. Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-85667-704-5 .
  • Helmut Kahlert , Richard Mühe , Gisbert L. Brunner , Christian Pfeiffer-Belli: Wristwatches: 100 years of development history. Callwey, Munich 1983; 5th edition, ibid 1996, ISBN 3-7667-1241-1 , pp. 78-86 and 505 f.

Web links

Wiktionary: complication  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GA Berner: Illustrated specialist encyclopedia of watchmaking , accessed on January 15, 2012
  2. ↑ Article "Complication" . watch-wiki.org ("The great watch lexicon"). May 31, 2015. Accessed February 15, 2018.
  3. ^ Helmut Kahlert, Richard Mühe, Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli: wrist watches: 100 years of development history. 1996, p. 505 ( Complicated wristwatch ).
  4. ↑ Watch Face Complications ( en ) Official developer documentation for Android Wear. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Andrew Martonik: How to add complications to your watch face on Android Wear 2.0 ( s ) androidcentral.com. February 13, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  6. ^ Wie-Meng Lee: Creating Custom Apple Watch Complications, Part 1 ( en ) informit.com. September 10, 2015. Accessed February 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ Ralf Ebert: watchOS 3 Tutorial: Complications . ralfebert.de. February 15, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Complications" on the official developer documentation for Tizen OS ( en ) tizen.org. Retrieved on February 16, 2018: “Complications are any additional features on a watch face that don't show hours and minutes. They allow a watch to do more than just tell time. "