Vincent calabrese sobre el co-axial:
TP178: There has been much excitement recently over the Daniels' co-axial escapement. Do you have a desire to experiment with escapement design?
VC: It is more than twenty years that he has created this escapement and everybody has always refuted it. And now Omega has it. Like he said before, everything that is complicated is not good. It has to be simple. (It) ask more energy, create more friction, more components to produce. It's more expensive. It's more delicate and more pieces to check.
It's an old dream of watchmakers. (In) the past, two things were really important for the watchmaker. The one was to create an escapement and the second was to make a tourbillon. And both are not useful and stupid. According to my father (laughing).
In the past, escapement was a necessity, was useful. But today it needs to be rethink again. It should be renewed totally. Now, today, when people make a creation, they make the same mistakes of the past. If my father make a watch without a balance which you cannot hear the sound tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, people are not going to recognize that as a watch.
TP178: (Thomas
I would.
VC: The worst thing in the watch today is the spiral balance.
TP178: The hairspring and the balance.
VC: And as far as we will have this on the watch we cannot go out of this accuracy. There is a physical limit.
TP178: A mechanical watch without a balance!?!
VC: Sure. We have to replace the hairspring and the balance by something else. Something more reliable, more constant. But the problem is does the collector of watches recognize this as a watch. You say yes but it is not so obvious for someone else.