Tuningfork Wisdom

Monday, October 4, 2021

There is just one (tuning-)fork truth: When you come to a fork in the road, take it. (Yogi Berra)

See our tuningfork-funk here: Stock.

You know, we are in love with these watches -- the bridge between mechanical and electronic watches, the Archaeopteryx in horology, the game changer and the force that pushed the industry towards quartz. The disruptor with the sweet humming sweep second hand.

And you know the most crazy watch movement ever was a tuningfork movement? Now, when the centerpiece of a movement is a oil filled can with a loose hanging cogwheel inside, that (the can) is shaken 720 times per second -- right, per second -- then we have an extraordinary masterpiece of engineering with a serious spritz funkiness and yes, it is a tuningfork jewel: Read here about Omegas MegaSonic 720Hz.