NOUN
- a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
How To Use balance wheel In A Sentence
- Choosing titanium, from among other light metals, in order to make a watch balance wheel, has never been envisaged until now.
- The complete watch balance consists of the balance wheel, the balance spring and the balance staff.
- Around 1675, Huygens developed the balance wheel and spring assembly.
- The MicroSet Watch Timer Pro allows you to measure the amplitude of vibration of a watch balance wheel to a high degree of accuracy.
- Designed by Fail, it demonstrates the balance wheel rather well.
- With your right hand, turn the balance wheel, or handwheel, one complete turn. Steps on the Proper Threading of Sewing Machines
- However, the balance wheel metaphor has another, perhaps unintended meaning.
- Here he still positions his hammer on the right as in a balance wheel clock in order to allow separate winding of each train.
- More minor things also contribute, like pitted headsets, untrue wheels, wobbly tires and out-of-balance wheels.
- For a balance wheel clock, there are no particular adjustments that you can make to keep it running.
