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    Look at these stunningly beautiful rotors

    Top 5 Most Beautiful Rotors

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    Very nice ......

    But I'm puzzled - the horological machine looks particularly inefficient.. to the point of being completely ineffective... or is it that it has more hidden mass below the surface for one side of the rotor that we can't see from the photo ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seriously View Post
    Very nice ......

    But I'm puzzled - the horological machine looks particularly inefficient.. to the point of being completely ineffective... or is it that it has more hidden mass below the surface for one side of the rotor that we can't see from the photo ?
    I would put money on it having a one-sided hidden mass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hayseed Brown View Post
    I would put money on it having a one-sided hidden mass.
    It has to. There isn't any way around that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seriously View Post
    Very nice ......

    But I'm puzzled - the horological machine looks particularly inefficient.. to the point of being completely ineffective... or is it that it has more hidden mass below the surface for one side of the rotor that we can't see from the photo ?
    Quote Originally Posted by Hayseed Brown View Post
    I would put money on it having a one-sided hidden mass.
    Quote Originally Posted by Broker View Post
    It has to. There isn't any way around that.
    Are you guys sure? It's not gravity but inertia that makes the rotor move. Automatics do work in space.

    And for some more pics, a few examples from the Dutch watchmaker Van der Klaauw:







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    Quote Originally Posted by Martin View Post
    Are you guys sure? It's not gravity but inertia that makes the rotor move. Automatics do work in space.

    If it was balanced mass either side of central (as the pic suggest) it's never (in a million years) gonna have any reason to move with or without gravity, it has to be off balanced and that means it must have some hidden extra mass on one side (either different, denser material on one side or just physically thicker on one side)
    They've been clever to make it appear to be balanced (purely for design/aesthetic reasons)
    Last edited by Seriously; Nov 20, 2014 at 07:16 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Martin View Post
    Are you guys sure? It's not gravity but inertia that makes the rotor move. Automatics do work in space.

    And for some more pics, a few examples from the Dutch watchmaker Van der Klaauw:






    quite right of course that the rotor is more influenced by inertia than gravity

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    Wow- amazing

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    I guess it's a matter of personal preference but other than the Blancpain most of those are too fancy for my tastes. This is about the right level of decoration for me:


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    Orient never makes these lists....


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