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at the heart of the movement i will try to explain the ... to build such or such a watch as far as the resonance phenomenon is concerned the ... without being lost goes back to the 18th century and the research performed ... by the great chemist a.l de lavoisier 1743- ... 1794 who stated his famous theory that is behind my modest convictions ... created everything is transformed with the invention of the pendulum watchmakers ... noticed that their beat often interfered with their ... environment and it was not unusual for a pendulum clock to ... stop of its own accord when the pendulum entered into resonance with ... the driving-weight suspended from its cords ... engineer as he described himself was the first to have the feeling that one ...

the deadbeat seconds device or the art of making time stand still towards ... the late 17th century as clocks were becoming increasingly precise ... added a hand finally enabling them to measure seconds these clocks which ... became pendulum clocks thanks to the invention of the pendular balance by ... the dutch watchmaker huygens were almost ... -long balance with a period of 1 second the dial was marked out into 60 ... subdivisions so that the hand could jump from one second to the ... next when the first watches indicating seconds were ... century watchmakers wanted to achieve the same visual effect as on clocks to do ... so they invented systems extending the period of the balances the best-known ... being the crown-wheel escapement with pendulum ...