/fa/ - Fashion

>>13514068
Short:
>no real advantage over Swiss lever escapement in accuracy, despite being promised
>no real advantage over Swiss lever escapement in reliability, wear or service interval, despite being promised
>supposed to originally not need any lubrication in the escape wheel or pallets, instead needs an extremely precise microscopic amount
>fragile escape wheel teeth, grab them the wrong way with tweezers and they're fucked
>pallets need to extremely precise, no way you can properly fit a pallet jewel with normal tools, any jewel problem means replacement (this becomes a problem decades from now when parts run out)
There's a reason no one but Memega, Daniels and Smith used them in the past one and a half century. AP has something superficially similar, but that didn't catch on either.

What, you think Rolex, GS, PP or JLC doesn't have the ability to produce this escapement if they wanted to? What do you think is stopping them?