Is this watchmaking artistry? FP Journe's solution to a 350 year old problem

Not sure if I can post direct links to YT video's but having just viewed this video from Watchfinder I am left in awe at what can be achieved within a very small object attached to one's wrist, not a battery, chip or circuit board in sight, just a selection of mechanical parts put together in a way that produces something magical.


What I don't understand is how this watch loses money rather than gaining value, lost for words.

Well, the CB has gone up in value

I remember someone mentioning this sort of effect in a thread years ago and the idea being dismissed as a sort of urban legend. I had heard of this effect when I was just a youngster but couldn't vouch for it being true or remember where I heard of it.
This reminds me of another effect . I have an old book around here somewhere that has plans for a simple device that uses wind passing over the mouth of a copper tube to refrigerate liquids that the other end is immersed into. IIRC it has been used to cool down fuel tanks on high speed aircraft.

I remember a Grandfather Clock in the home of a friend' Grandparents that had a most interesting and somehow comforting resonance. The entire case seemed alive somehow. It was a very old specimen with astronomical complications.
I can believe its vibrations affected rhythms of everything in that house.

"
My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor
It was taller by half than the old man himself
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more

It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born
And was always his treasure and pride
But it stopped, short never to go again
When the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
It stopped, short never to go again
When the old man died

My grandfather said that of those he could hire
Not a servant so faithful he found
For it wasted no time and had but one desire
At the close of each week to be wound

And it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face
And its hands never hung by its side
But it stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died

It rang and alarmed in the dead of the night
An alarm that for years had been dumb
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight
That his hour for departure had come

Still the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled chime
As we silently stood by his side
But it stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died

Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
It stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died"

@Martin_J_N ...

This is truly fascinating, sir.

Thanks for posting.

Also, I engaged the Google machine and located some additional information at the F.P.Journe site...

This one appears to be fantastically spiffy...I’ll take it. 👍

Thanks for digging this info up, great background info.

You join a watch forum and learn about metronome synchronisation, what the..........

Totally fascinating thanks @Archer

Super cool

Looks to be the same principle though not the same name.
The old book I have suggested it was used to cool down fuel in high speed aircraft, early jets I suppose since the book was from the forties and only air friction at extreme high speeds could counter the effects of high altitude cold.
Might also have been useful at lower altitudes in tropic climes.

Using the air flow over the aircraft would be pretty much free energy. No moving parts to wear out in the early design so it looks to have been a win -win situation.

A very enjoyable and educating read, just a shame the watches are considerably out of my price range until i win the lottery