The Metatechnical Cabinet

Welcome to the Metatechnical Cabinet! As the name indicates, you can gaze at many different technical devices:

To the left, there's the large watch movement collection and a several further pages about mechanical wristwatches.

In the middle, you can browse the large radio and frequency collection with current and historical bandscans and logs, with pages about several radios and some interesting construction manuals for DXers.

On the right, you can dig into my expanding pocket calculator collection, which provides an extensive insight into the development of a device, which was once expensive and interestringly constructed, but which is more or less worthless today.

In the rest of the cabinet, you can find a few articles about my computers, my programs and some funny findings.

Have fun!

See more on my watch pages
See more on my watch pages


Updates

Watch movement pages
2011-10-07 Peseux 80: ... was identified.
2011-05-01 PUW 700: The final movement before summer break is one of the earliest PUW caliber, a cylinder movement.
2011-04-19 Kasper 100: An old german cylinder movement.
2011-03-26 AS 1287: A well made swiss handwound movement from the late 1940ies.
2011-03-20 Venus 54: A high quality, ellipse-shaped handwound movement from Switzerland.
2011-03-13 PUW 461: 2011-03-06 Kienzle 057/21d: The "Volksautomatic" with ruby-pin-lever escapement.
2011-02-13 Langendorf 600: A tiny, space-saving swiss movement..
2011-02-06 EB 8027: A pin lever movement with a whooping lot of 23 jewels and an interesting date indication mechanism.
2011-05-02 another unknown cylinder movement: probably early 20th century.
2011-01-30 Kasper 900: A compareatively rare german handwind movement.
2011-01-23 The new year starts a little late with a movement: The Raketa 2628.H is an interesting russian movement with day-date indication.

Two movements, which were in the wrong category, have been put to their correct manufacturer, Sonceboz.

2010-12-29 Jeambrun 23D: A quite often used french handwound movement.
2010-12-27 unknown cylinder movement: probably early 20th century.
2010-12-12 MST 963: A rather rate handwound movement by MST / Roamer.
2010-12-05 Zaria 2016: A very complicated made and rare russian selfwinding movement.
2010-11-20 Hanhart 750: Something different: A stopwatch movemenet with a resolution of 1/10 sec.
2010-11-07 AHS 154: A rare german selfwinding movement with excenter changer.
2010-11-01 AM 612/17: A cylinder movement with 10 jewels.
2010-10-24 AS 1580: A very detailled review of the first "Maximatic" movement.
2010-10-17 PUW 500: The first movement of the Pforzheimer Uhrenrohwerke.
2010-10-10 Junghans J93S10: One of the last members of the J93 caliber series.
2010-10-03 AS 969: One of the smallest movements by AS with a diameter of only 15mm.
2010-09-26 Elgin 524: An american high quality movement from the thirties.
2010-09-19 Durowe 61: A mid-size german form movement of the 1950ies.
2010-09-12 A new donation from the early 50ies: Förster 2080.
2010-09-05 ETA 2873: An inexpensive ETA movement of the 1970ies.

Reworking of the Timex pages.

2010-05-24 Junghans J 93: A mass produced german pallet lever movement.
2010-04-11 Certina 230: Another high quality swiss form movement.
2010-04-07 Venus 55: A quality swiss form movement with chatons.
2010-04-05 Doxa 103: A high quality swiss movement with a golden-toned Glucydur screw balance, that bases on the ETA 2391.
2010-04-24 Geneva Sport 41: The 500th movement of the archive (the 464th detailed movement) is from Switzerland and is a quite rare, rather crude made, but well equipped movement with screw balance, Incabloc shock protections and pallet levers.
2010-03-28 Oris 158: A simple pin lever movement with an unusual axial shock absorber.

Everything else
2012-01-15 After a long time a new calculator: MR 609, made in GDR.
2011-10-07 End Of Summer Break! Continuing with the watch pages!
2011-05-20 Summer Break! Like each summer, the metatechnical cabinet takes a summer break, which means, than, if yet, only a very small number of updates will happen till autumn.

Please note: Mails will be answered only on a rare rate.

2010-09-05 End Of Summer Break! Continuing with the watch pages!
2010-05-23 Summer Break! Like each summer, the metatechnical cabinet takes a summer break, which means, than, if yet, only a very small number of updates will happen till autumn.
2009-06-13 FM bandscan pages: New page with Sporadic E logs and map; new bandscan from the Blomberg near Bad Tölz
2009-02-28 FM bandscan pages: New scans from Wolkenstein in South Tyrol and Innsbruck and new transmitter photos from south tyrol.