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The escapement
Twenty-eight thousand eight hundred times an hour, the pallet fork lets one tooth of the escape wheel go. You hear it as a tick. We hear a heartbeat.
28,800beats per hour
§ 01The idea
The idea
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos, the time that passes, and kairos, the moment that matters. We spend eleven months building one watch so it can keep the first, and mark the second.
Every O-1 is assembled, regulated and cased by a single watchmaker, who engraves their initials on the movement before it leaves the bench.
