I don't know if anyone is interested, but Babel Fish says that

of glasswork it is,

and doppelfederhaus means double spring house literally, and must refer to
how many springs the
watch has - a main spring and another for the alarm, which apparently has
several settings
between simply  ab (off) and auf (on).

"Scott Lambert" <sla### [at] niobraracom> wrote in message
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> Looks like you've made quite an impression here. Good job.
> And pay no attention to the Rolex comments.
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> > I haven't dropped any images on here before so I thought I might see
what
> > people thought.  This was done entirely within the Povray editor, no
other
> > programs involved.
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"Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
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>  http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1999-04-30/histwach.jpg

Ha ha!  Hey I like that one, if only in concept, anyway  :-)
Not one you'd let the batteries fail you at a bad time.

Bob H.

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I see what appears to be an included sky texture from POV-Ray reflecting off
that, otherwise I would have thought this to be a file from some website of
animated GIF's  ;-)

Bob H.

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"Scott Lambert" <sla### [at] niobraracom> wrote:


> in english is glasswork, and I assume the 1/SA refers to what kind of
> glasswork it is,
> 


"In Saxony"

> and doppelfederhaus means double spring house literally, and must refer
> to how many springs the watch has - a main spring and another for the
> alarm, which apparently has several settings between simply  ab (off)
> and auf
> (on).
> 

The ab-auf hand is the power reserve indicator. "Doppelfederhaus" is
"double barrel", meaning the watch has a double mainspring barrel.

Don't ask me how/why I know so much about expensive German watches :P

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cool.

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Excellent work!  Inspirational too :)

"Patrick Dugan" <pat### [at] usticom> wrote in message
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> I haven't dropped any images on here before so I thought I might see what
> people thought.  This was done entirely within the Povray editor, no other
> programs involved.
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Bob H. wrote:
> I see what appears to be an included sky texture from POV-Ray <snip>

True

> otherwise I would have thought this to be a file from some website of
> animated GIF's  ;-) <snip>

Guilty as charged ... I do mean to do something with my POV Ray page, but
the IRTC seems to get in the way.

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>
> > and doppelfederhaus means double spring house literally
>
> The ab-auf hand is the power reserve indicator. "Doppelfederhaus" is
> "double barrel", meaning the watch has a double mainspring barrel.
>

The advantage of the double mainspring barrel is that with most spring powered
clocks the winding and the power for the clock are taken from the same side of
the spring.  Therefor the clock is not powered during winding so it can loose
some time.  If a clock has a double mainspring barrel that means the clock is
so accurate the effort to fix a fractional second error is worth it.
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What is the single white needle (AUF/AB)?

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Its a power reserve indicator for the mainsprings.

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> What is the single white needle (AUF/AB)?
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