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The new movement...
Mar 23, 2015,04:32 AM
Is in my opinion the unique interesting new thing came out from Rolex this year in Basel, the others are merely annoying.
It is a very interesting machine from different points of view, first of all because denotes a great research in optimizing the straight lever escapement with completely renewed geometry of the pallets, fork and dents of the escapement wheel.
The form of the escapement wheel is interesting too, a miracle of the new technologies (electro erosion) which shows us something barely impossibile till some years ago.
The declared improvement rate in energetic efficiency, power reserve and chronometey for a pretty traditional escapement and without using new spring or other parts in silicon (maybe the siloxi spring will do its debut in the future) is absolutely remarkable from a company which is not used to do it often and still uses movement conceived more than an half century ago.
Another really "exciting" (it could appears humorous but it isn't because a lot of people were waiting it since long time) detail is the decision to mount the winding rotor, at last, with ball bearings and abandon the traditional (and pretty faulty) pivoted architecture used until now in the most part of their movements (excepted the new ones like the 4130). This should solve once forever the problem of the "sliding" rotor crawling against the bridges of the movement when the pivot consumes itself.
On the finishing side these first examples of the new generation don't appear of the same quality level (already pretty low but well made enough considering the volume produced) as the old ones, something not less important given the price they already reached.
The matter, at this point, is "how much"; how much time will Rolex use to shift all the models to the new generation of movements?
I guess decades
Regards