What is a Mechanical Clock?

A mechanical clock is a timer that tells the time by the sound of a bell. It is the crystallization of human wisdom. The earliest Western mechanical clock appeared in European monasteries in the thirteenth century. At first, mechanical clocks driven by weights appeared in monasteries in England. The mechanical clock at that time relied on the watchers to ring the clock every hour to inform the monks of various religious activities on time, and it was not fully connected with people's daily lives.

Mechanical clock

A mechanical clock is a timer that tells the time by the sound of a bell. It is the crystallization of human wisdom. The earliest Western mechanical clock appeared in the 13th century.

Mechanical watches

Mechanical clock watch

By 1887, ladies who loved beauty and pursued fashion began to wear watches. The strap replaces the bracelet of the pocket watch for a fixed function. With the advent of the 20th century, as people's productivity level develops rapidly, they have also begun to pursue a more casual style that is different from the past. At the same time that clothing styles have changed, pocket watches that could only be worn in orthodox suits could not meet the needs. People need a watch that is casual and not so elegant. Driven by this "popular style", watches quickly occupied the market.

Mechanical clock

The oldest surviving mechanical clocks were made around 1290 and housed in British and Italian monasteries.

Water clock

Used to arrange the daily religious activities of the monks. The timing method uses the 24-hour equal division method of Babylon, relying on the clock to ring the clock. The water clock was mentioned in a European textbook in 1090. The water clock is timed by a constant flow of water. The originator of the mechanical clock, which is based on periodic mechanical movements. The earliest clock face only had hour and engraved scales, and there was only one hand. In the Northern Song Dynasty, after completing the national project "Watercraft Instrumental Observatory", he wrote "The New Instrumental Image Essentials" with a rough creation method of a water clock.

Mechanical clockspring

With the improvement of the summation technology of people's requirements for timing accuracy, the minute and second hands are installed on the clock face, so that the mechanical clock can

Mechanical clock

Display time more accurately. A mechanical clock equipped with a clock face and hands allows one to understand time intuitively. The clock face and hands use the ancient sundial. The huge clock face and hands, as well as the timed ringing of the clock, have become the standard of today. In the 15th century, the invention of the coil spring and the application of the clockwork device made the mechanical clock free from the heavy weight and become a small and delicate tool. The hairspring commonly used in current mechanical clocks was developed by Huygens on the basis of coil springs.