Summary
- The Openmovement foundation has made its watch designs open source, and available to download in STEP file format.
- The 3.5Hz, 25,200 vph watch was developed to be easily serviceable, robust and modular, and suited to watchmakers in training.
- While the design is open source, the Openmovement foundation is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to produce kits of the OM10 watch.
- The campaign allows users to pledge enough to receive a kit, which will comprise all the tiny parts required to assemble the watch.
- The OM10 uses a “Swiss pallets escapement” (a translation of lever escapement), and an OM20 is also in development.
- Those without the equipment to finely machine brass from the STEP files can still get involved with the project by pledging enough to receive a kit.
By Tyler August
Original Article