Do you know what is a mainspring!?
Lemme tell you a little story first!
Took my wrist watch one fine day and thought of repairing it! It did not matter that I was only 12 years old! I saw a small thread like structure sticking out! Thought that it is obstructing the tick of the watch and took it out!
That was the moment I decided to not become an engineer!
What I had removed was the heart of the watch called the mainspring!
A mainspring is a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon—commonly spring steel—used as a power source in mechanical watches, some clocks, and other clockwork mechanisms. Winding the timepiece, by turning a knob or key, stores energy in the mainspring by twisting the spiral tighter. The force of the mainspring then turns the clock’s wheels as it unwinds, until the next winding is needed!
Now do you wonder why watches are called watches!? Of course you are a normal person who does not take out the mainspring of a watch and wonder these things but in case you do then this is why a watch is presumably called a watch!
The watch was developed by inventors and engineers from the 16th century to the mid-20th century as a mechanical device, powered by winding a mainspring which turned gears and then moved the hands; it kept time with a rotating balance wheel.
So one account of the origin of the word “watch” suggests that it came from the Old English word woecce which meant “watchman”, because town watchmen used watches to keep track of their shifts.
Or like many old theories, this could also be related to the sea! This states that the term came from 17th-century sailors, who used the new mechanisms to time the length of their shipboard watches (duty shifts)!
I love to watch watches! The different clocks and the wrist watches give me so much thrill! The regular ticking of the old mechanical watches still gives me a sense of routine and regularity! It could be because I like to be punctual and looking at the time or ‘watch’ every other instant is a habit and a curse! Which is why when I do not have access to time, I feel the time is getting lost or wasted!
So in spite of having an assortment of digital watches, one of my favourite is still the mechanical pocket watch which I have! I take it out, check the time which is mostly wrong and put it back again! Yeah! That is definitely a waste of time or being crazy!
Then what would you call someone who buys a watch which basically tells you the same time for $55 million dollars!?
Do you know the costliest watch in the world? Well, for now Claiming the title of the world’s most expensive watch is the Hallucination by Graff Diamonds.
The watch is set into a platinum bracelet and made from 110 carats of rare coloured diamonds of various cuts and finishes and if you use your bargaining skills, you can get it for around 55 millions dollars (taxes extra!)
If that’s making your head spin, you can unspin by watching a Rohit Shetty movie! Full paise wasool!
Now watch your watch for alarm and sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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