What is the "three-pin line" specification Regulator (Table) introduction

2018-05-11 20:00:13

The hour, minute, and second hands are separated from each other, occupying a dial conscientiously, the three-pin ends all fall on a straight line from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock, and this chic look has Regulator Table, the fans in the table is often vividly known as the "three-pin line."

From sailing to the factory master clock

On the contrary, the standard pointer form as a "three-pin" watch a member, although the popular watch on the arrival of three needle, However, it also has a long history. It has made outstanding contributions to the railway and maritime industry. It has been used by many watchmaking factories in Switzerland as a master clock for reference to standard time.

There are different opinions on the origins of the standard pointer table. When the mariner who started the sea clock in the first half of the 18th century needed precise readings when leaving the sea, the three-pronged non-interfering travel time and read-time layout well met the needs of navigation. We can see some of this in the first berth H1 invented by John Harrison, the father of sailing clocks.

However, due to the clock technology in the effort to reduce the bell body, so John Harrison's famous fourth-generation navigation clock H4 has evolved into the third year of the needle form. As a result, people gradually formed a grand and simple impression on the "normative guideline."

In the second half of the 18th century, watch manufacturers have a strong interest in the normative pointer, but this interest is not made of products for sale, but as a great mother on the factory as a reference timepieces, said to be because of the three Needle separation to ensure a more accurate travel time, but successful researchers think it "has little to do with the accuracy of travel time, the advantage is mainly easy to read, intuitive."

Railway transport re-pointer layout

And when the 19th century rail transport developed, the importance of the layout of clocks and watches was once again put on the desk. After a railway accident, the survey found that the train workers stumbled upon the pocket watch, turning the hour and minute hands backwards, leading to serious errors in reading. Afterwards, the railway industry used the normative guideline again and again, "If the three needles are not mixed together, they will not be mistaken." Without the nautical industry, the watch and clock industry would not be able to achieve such a rapid development. From the heavy navigation time Lightweight pocket watches, portable watches and then, the actual needs of seafarers to promote the clock from the inside out changes. Clock watch attack, so after the watch appeared, and ultimately, "normative" place.

In 1806 the French watchmaker Louis Berthoud created the first "three-needle, one-thread" gauge dial, while the "canonical pointer" watch from the 1980s by Swiss brand watchmaker Gerd Rudiger Lang Is considered the first mass-produced watch that uses the surface of a standard pointer. However, in the long history of these two time points, the "jump-time" doctor's watch appeared in the 1920s also had a three-pronged approach. However, the hour was displayed by an independent window instead of an hour hand. In the 1940s, Produced "Doctor Table" and MIMO CENTRIC, these are called standard "three-pin" design.

The way modern people are not accustomed to reading

Interestingly, the standard pointer was first acclaimed as "convenient for reading", but when it comes to the present society, getting accustomed to the third-year clock face, sub-coaxial people may not meet the three-pin discrete read time Method, the eyes and brain will feel awkward. Someone even looks at the minute hand of the center as the hour hand at first glance. So we can say that the "read-time" advantage of the normative pointer is now gone, and the more meaning it may float on the surface more and more: beautiful.

In order to ensure the clarity of the two small dial scale, the entire dial design of the gauge pointer watch is basically very simple, simple color dial with two small dials occupying almost one half of the total disc area, and because Dial is occupied by three pointers too full, no place to accommodate more features, the rest of the space is often marked with the brand logo, with the calendar window is all, so pure single, compared to the big three-pin watch models but More than a strange appearance of the general aesthetic taste. Today, the standard pointer watch position in the watch roughly belongs to the "formal dress models" branch, with a classic gentleman stubborn and elegant style.

1. Polar Vintage Vintage WW2 Bomber Pilot Specter Pointer: This watch is a tribute to the timepieces used by pilots of the 1940s and 1940s, quite traditional astronomical watch features.

2. Jaeger-LeCoultre Series of Traditional Masters Three Questions: The new Jaeger-LeCoultre 947R is the first movement to combine the third and the norms hands together. The two sides of the seconds plate are clockwork torque measurement display and power reserve.

3. Rui Bao Kairos Regulateur watch: engraved 1806 French watchmaker Louis Berthoud designed the "three-pin" standard specification face plate and retains the elegant design of the old astronomical astronomical clock.

4. Yake Deluo specification pointer Regulator Ivory Enamel: brand unique 8-shaped geometric elements into the three-pin line design, the hour hand in the second dial connected together to "fire" enamel firing.

5. Universal Portugal standard pointer Tourbillon watch: the famous brand of 98-based movement, the restructuring of the flying tourbillon and three-pin line of outstanding design, visible minute tourbillon is placed at 9 o'clock position.

6. Montblanc Ville LEG 1858 normative pointer large chronograph: 12 hours in the hour disk into the second time zone time display function to indicate the local time hollowed out the hour hand, blue hour hand indicating the time of origin.