DETENT ESCAPEMENT
FABRICATION OF A DETENT ESCAPE WHEEL, THE ARTISANAL METHOD
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Detent escapement is one of the main free escapements found with the Swiss lever escapement.
It is an escapement that has the particularity to give only one release to the wheel per oscillation while almost all the escapements give two releases per oscillation or in other words one release per vibration. This particularity makes that one sees twice less impulse at the level of the second hand.