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I am presently a student fast-approaching my final-year of an HND in Horology. During this final year, we are required to 'build' a functional clock or watch.
[By build, I mean - on the most part - rehouseing movements, replanting trains and things like that; 'though one of the present years class built a regulator from scratch....which was nice, heh]
I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to ask a question;
For my project, I aim to re-case a movement, and improvise a simple case-winding mechanism for same. So my question is this:
Does anyone happen to have a rough estimate of the torque required to:
A) Simply wind the watch [lower/minimum torque],
and/or
B) Once a movement's [any medium sized, hand-wind mechanical (sub seconds and calendar display preferably, but I imagine they're mostly similar) would do, but I'm hoping to use an old Peseux 336N, but may be forced to resort to the 7001] mainspring reaches full wind, to do damage to the movement [highest possible torque].
If I had a relevant tool, I'd simply borrow a 7001 and test it, but sadly I'm out of college now, and most, if not all, tools are out of my price-range until student loans come through, heh.
I shall let you guys know how it goes either way though.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice,
Eli.