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Component record · Train

Minute Wheel Post

Partially verified

Stationary pin

What it does

Provides an axis for the minute wheel

How it works

Evolution

Integrated into the plate

Known variations

    Identification for collectors

      Common failure modes

      • Wear

      Diagram

      barrelcentre wheelthird wheelfourth wheelescape wheel
      Schematic: the going train. An outline schematic drawn to show the arrangement of the parts discussed here. It is not a dimensioned working drawing and does not depict a particular maker's calibre.

      Sources & references

      1. de Carle, D., Practical Watch Repairing
      2. de Carle, D., Watch and Clock Encyclopedia
      3. Daniels, G., Watchmaking

      Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.