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For anyone that's curious about what witschi timing machines are like the first link has demonstrations you can download. Seating kinda play with the buttons and see what things are supposed to look like.

Then there's actually four generations of the watch expert. First three generations the case looks identical except color. Enhancements added to each generation improving things. Third generation has a backlit screen which hopefully makes it much easier to see. The second-generation screen is a really shiny and reflects everything like overhead lights. Fourth-generation the machine below is basically an entirely new machine.

So first link demonstrations and the Witschi Training Course Which really is good for anyone with a timing machine.

http://www.witschi.com/en/service/downloads/instruction-document.html

http://www.witschi.com/en/group-of-devices/measurement-of-mechanical-watches/watch-expert/watch-expert.html

 

 

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Witschi timing machines are interesting versus the Chinese. If things are perceived to be out of range the witschi machine will give a variety of error messages and then refused to do anything. If it's a Chinese machine it typically will not give an error and will try to show something whether it's right or not.

Then it be helpful to know which watch are you timing and a picture of the display in manual mode when it's running as you perceive correctly.

In auto mode the machine will attempt to figure out what frequency watch you have. In auto mode it has a limited number of frequencies it will look at basically the standard. If it perceives its outside of that then you get the error message. This is where in manual mode you select like 18,000 it now knows what it's trying to time and it will time it providing its within the range of what it can do. Simplistically it's telling you it's having a problem that needs help which means there's probably some issue with the watch perhaps.

This is where it be nice to have something this machine does not have a oscilloscope. But you can also listen to it and see if it sounds right. Because anything that sounds incorrect might be upsetting the machine anyway.

Then sometimes If things get really bad you can go to rate only it won't display amplitude or beat But usually that solves the problem if things are really having issues and you still want to display something.

Then I'm attaching the PDF of the users manual

 

witschi watch expert II user manual.pdf

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