George Daniels, winner of many national and international awards, including the prestigious Tompion Gold Medal, and by far the greatest living horlogist, has invented the co-axial escapement.
Find here some examples which explaines the art of watchmaking.
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flat chronometer with 8-thothed co-axial escapement and subsidiary device
to indicate whole seconds. Keyless winding with tree positions pendant;
pendant in position for wearing the watch, winding and hand-setting. Completed
in 1986.
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flat trourbillon with co-axial escapement. Note the carriage is driven
at the edge, which carries a ring of theeth, thus eliminating the drive
pinion below the carriage as generally used in tourbillons. Completed in
approx. 1986.
One-minute tourbillon with co-axial escapement, minute repeating on two gongs, perpetual calendar with instantaneous change for all fucntions. The dieal shows the calendar indications with a retrigrade date hand. Also inidicated are moon phases and temprature in centigrade degrees. Sectors for equation of time and reserve of winding are visible on the back of the watch. This watch also has three-position pendant for keyless winding. Completed in 1987.
Wrist watch with four-minute tourbillon and minute recording chronograph. Reserve of winding sector on the dial. Completed in 1991.
Space Traveller's Watch, displaying Sideral Time with inset age and phase of the moon, Mean Solar Time with inset date of the month, seconds below, equation of time sector above, gold solar hands, blue steel sideral hands, chronograph hand indicated either Solar or Sideral seconds to choice, Solar:Sideral ratio 1:1.002737924 Rapid setting for all displays, both trains with independant stop-start for precise setting of seconds. The watch was made to commemorate the American landing on the moon. Completed 1983.
Tourbillon with reversed detent escapement (detent in tension) with remontoire released at 15.seconds intervals to rewind the carriage driving spring. Equation of time and reverse of winding sectors on the dial. Completed in 1974.
One-minute tourbillon with the prototype co-axial escapement. The dial
has a reverse of winding sector. This watch was submitted for testing at
the Royal Observatory. Completed in 1978.