01 / 03 · Setting
Turn the crown.
The train follows.
One motion at the crown and every wheel answers: hours, minutes and the small seconds move together.
Arc 72 · hand-wound · open-worked
Seventy-two hours of reserve, a balance beating eight times a second, and a movement cut open so you can watch every one of them.
01 / 03 · Setting
One motion at the crown and every wheel answers: hours, minutes and the small seconds move together.
02 / 03 · Running
The balance swings 290° and back, releasing the escape wheel one tooth at a time for three days.
03 / 03 · Closer
Open-worked bridges, hand-bevelled edges, and a movement you can read like a map.
IIRegulation
A gold balance and a blue hairspring swing 290° each way; the pallet fork frees one escape tooth per swing. That is all of timekeeping.
IIITransmission
Barrel to escape wheel, every mesh multiplies the last: the arithmetic that turns three days of spring into seconds.
IVReserve
Turn the crown and the barrel at twelve winds nine turns: seventy-two hours, with a long tapered spring that keeps the balance strong almost to the end.
VSpecifications
The Arc 72 is a concept. These figures belong to the watch on this page, and the ones in the chapters above are computed from them.