Tech question re quartz / mechanical hybrids

peasant

Just as a matter of interest ...with a hybrid movement like this, would you get a sweeping second hand or the typical quartz stutter?

Wibbs

Well I've a French LIP nautic from the 60's with an electromechanical movement, not quartz. Looking at that movement it seems similar? Though it's fancier with an actual silicon chip! :eek: maybe that's a quartz module?

To the ear it sounds like a mechanical watch only more positive "clangy" metallic in sound. The second hand sweeps rather than clicks in positive one second intervals like a quartz. It's not a smooth sweep mind you. It has a slightly hesitant jerky vibe to it. Kinda like an older low beat mechanical movement with indirect seconds drivetrain.

Of the later quartz stepping motor driving mechanical parts I've no experience of them so can't help you there P I'm afraid.