Sentence examples for * escapement from inspiring English sources

Chopard's L.U.C 8HF, also released this year, uses silicon for certain escapement components, including the escape wheel.

In a typical verge-and-foliot escapement, the weighted rope unwinds from the barrel, turning the toothed escape wheel.

The escapement allows travel.

The most common escapement was the verge-and-foliot.

Rising to the challenge, he invented the coaxial escapement.

Duplex refers to a movement with a two-wheel escapement.

Although Tompion abandoned production of both the dead-beat escapement in clocks and his horizontal escapement in watches, these undoubtedly influenced Graham's reintroduction of the dead-beat escapement (c. 1720) and his invention of the cylinder escapement (c. 1725).

An escapement was originally a toothed wheel turned by the slowly dropping weight.

The watch has what Journe calls its High-Performance Bi-axial Escapement, a patented two-wheel direct impulse escapement that functions without oil and is the only direct impulse escapement to start up on its own.

There was something wrong, Mr. Whitlock said, with the machine's escapement.

The coaxial escapement was finally bought and incorporated into industrial production by Omega in 1999.