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When the crown is turned in this state, rotation is transferred in the order of the crown, wheel/sliding
pinion, wheel/setting and wheel/minute.
The wheel/minute causes the wheel/hour and wheel/cannon pinion to rotate resulting in movement of
the hand/minute and hand/hour. (Fig. 15-3)
Since only a portion of the wheel/cannon pinion rotates at this time, rotation is not transferred to the
wheels/second and third.
15-3-3 Calendar Part
The calendar unit provided in analog watches displays the
date using rotating disks referred to as the indicator/date and
indicator/day.
It is composed of the wheel/intermediate, wheel/driving cal-
ender, indicator/date, jumper/date and jumper/day. To begin
with, rotation is transferred from the wheel/hour that drives
the hand/hour to the wheel/intermediate and then the wheel/
driving calender.
The wheel/driving calender is designed to make one revolu-
tion in 24 hours.
The finger/date attached to the indicator/date engages once
a day with the gear on the inside of the indicator/date to ad-
vance the date.
In the case of advancing the day, the finger/date attached to
the wheel/driving calender similarly engages once a day with
the star/day attached to the indicator/day.
Furthermore, the timing by which the day advances is usually
after the timing by which the day advances to prevent the
load of calendar operation from being applied simultaneously.
In the case of correcting the date, the wheel/setting turns the
indicator/date and star/day directly. However, since the day
and date are normally advanced from about 12:00 midnight
until about 4:00 AM, calendar correction should not be per-
formed during this time.
Wheel/Minute
Wheel/Setting
Pinion/Sliding
Wheel/Cannon pinion
Wheel/Hour
Crown with stem
Hand/Minute
Hand/Hour
Indicator/Date
Finger/Date
Wheel/Hour
Wheel/Intermediate
Wheel/Driving
calender
Wheel/Intermediate
Wheel/Driving
calender
Indicator/Day
Finger/Day
Lever/Day setting
Fig. 15-3
Fig. 15-4
Fig. 15-5