Ebosa 23

 
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Ebosa 23

Description

At last 1944, maybe a few yeas before, the Eboase Caliber 23 was launched. It is a rather large pin lever movement with a diameter of 11 1/2 lignes and was made until the early 1960ies.

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The construction and features of the movment is pretty unusual, especially for a pin lever movement.

Ebosa 23: main plate

main plate

All bearings contain rubies; together with the ellipse of the balance (unusual for a pin lever movement), it comes to a total of 15 jewels.

Ebosa 23: gears and trains

gears and trains

As you can easily see, it’s a Roskopf construction, where the directly driven center second wheel resides below the mainspring barrel. The hands are both driven on the dial side by the mainspring barrel with a friction gear, while the center second is driven on the movement side by the mainspring barrel, with two intermediate gears, third and large driving wheel.

Ebosa 23: mainspring barrel with double friction gear

mainspring barrel with double friction gear

This movement has got an own cock for the center second wheel and (and this is really odd!) a cock, which bears both, the escapement wheel and the lever. This construction makes it impossible for a watch maker to test the complete movement without the lever!

Ebosa 23: Gears with lever- and escapement wheel cock

Gears with lever- and escapement wheel cock

The balance, which beats with contemporarily slow 18000 A/h contains lookalike screw (as usual made of massive half-circles) and a ruby ellipse. Those screws have no functional use, but look beautiful!

Ebosa 23: lookalike screw balance of the Ebosa 23

lookalike screw balance of the Ebosa 23

The specimen shown here is probably one of the latest ones, since there balance wheel is already beared in two KIF Protechock shock protections. It’s a bit unusual for pin lever movement, but especially for the heavier fake screw balance with its thin axles, it is useful.

Ebosa 23: dial side with yoke winding system

dial side with yoke winding system

The Ebosa 23 has got a yoke winding system - this is also not common on pin lever movements and shows the high quality of this movement.

Of all pin lever movements of the Uhrenbastler archive, this is one of the best.

In the lab

The specimen described here was more or less working, but needed (and got) a full service.

Timegrapher result

On the timegrapher, the results in horizontal positions were really good, but on the vertical positions it showed very poor results and even got such a low amplitude, that it was no longer possible to measure it. If you look as Position "3 up", you can see, how the change of the position changed not only beating frequency, but also the amplitiude.
crown right (12 up)

crown right (12 up)

crown up (3 up)

crown up (3 up)

crown left (6 up)

crown left (6 up)

crown down (9 up)

crown down (9 up)

dial up

dial up

dial down

dial down


horizontal positions
dial up+70 s/d
dial down+40 s/d
vertical positions
crown right (12 up)- s/d
crown up (3 up)- s/d
crown left (6 up)- s/d
crown down (9 up)+240 s/d
Timegrapher output

Technical data

Manufacturer:Ebosa
Caliber:23
Size:11 1/2''' (measured: 25,5mm)
A/h:18000
Number of jewels:15
Escapement:Pin lever
Balance types: Nickel screw balance
Shock protection(s): KIF Protechoc
Balance bearing / direction hairspring:Clockwise
Moveable stud:no
Adjust mechanism:Long regulator arm
Construction:
  • lever, escape wheel
  • seconds wheel
  • third wheel, large driving wheel, mainspring barrel
Construction type:solid construction
Winding mechanism:yoke winding system
Setting lever spring:2 hole(s)
Features:
  • SCD (direct center seconds)
Production period:194? -
References: Flume: 1952 23

Usage gallery

Ebosa 23: Zurex mens' watch

Zurex mens' watch

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