HMT 6906

 
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HMT 6906

Description

The HMT 6906 (sometimes also referred as HMT 6902) is a unidirectionally winding automatic movement from India, which is a direct relative of the Citizen 6501.

HMT 6906: base plate

base plate

On the base plate you see, that all bearings, including those of the minute wheel and mainspring barrel are equipped with rubies. Perfect!

HMT 6906: minute wheel bridge

minute wheel bridge

The gear construction is a bit old-fashioned, since a central minute wheel is used, which is beared under an own bridge and directly driven by the mainspring barrel, At 3 o’clock beneath the center second ruby bearing, you can see the pivot for carrying the breguet clutch of the selfwinding mechanism.

HMT 6906: gear train

gear train

On the HMT with its classical gear train, not only center second wheel, third wheel and escapement wheel are beared under the large gear train bridge, but also the mainspring barrel and the two reduction wheel of the selfwinding mechanism. This is not really service friendly…

HMT 6906: side view of the gear train

side view of the gear train

The lower wheel of the breguet clutch is attached with a spring to the upper wheel. In the side view of the gear train, you can see this quite well.

HMT 6906: gear train below the bridge

gear train below the bridge

The Glucydur anular balance of this classical pallet lever movement beats with 21600 A/h and is beared in two Citizen Parashock 1 bearings.

HMT 6906: lower clutch wheel

lower clutch wheel

The two clutch wheels are a Breguet clutch. It ensures, that the oscillating weight winds unidirectionally, while in the other direction, it spins free. For the ratchet, a simple spring is used, which blocks the second reduction wheel, at 2 o’clock at the outermost side of the movement.

The upper clutch wheel is secured by a spring on the axle, an efficient, but not really matchmaker-friendly solution.

HMT 6906: empty dial side

empty dial side

On the empty dial side, you can see the yoke winding system. In its middle position, the date ring can be quicky advanced by a riveted finger with wheel, which is driven by the inner one of the two(!) gears on the winding stem. An unusual, but efficient solution.

HMT 6906: date indication mechanism

date indication mechanism

The date indication mechanism has got a driving wheel with a plastic finger to ensure, that the date ring only advances but never turns back. This is important, as this is the only way to adjust day and date, since the day disc can be turned back and forth.

HMT 6906: complete date indication mechanism

complete date indication mechanism

The weekday is driven by a switching star, which is driven by the date switching wheel. Date ring and weekday disc are both fixed by one spring (at 6 o’clock) and one lever (at 8 o’clock in the center).

HMT 6906: cover of the date indication mechanism

cover of the date indication mechanism

Of course, there’s a cover for the date indication mechanism, which fixed the spring and the date ring.

HMT 6906: HMT 6906 dial side

HMT 6906 dial side

The large weekday disc is only printed in one language. Date and weekday advance slowly and synchonously in a period of 90 minutes.

In the lab

The specimen shown here came, as you can see, well used and dirty into the lab. Unfortunatly, the sticky hairspring could not be saved yet, not even with three cleaning processes.

Technical data

Manufacturer:HMT
Caliber:6906
Size:10 1/2''' (measured: 23,55mm)
A/h:21600
Number of jewels:21
Escapement:Pallet lever
Balance types: Nickel anular balance
Shock protection(s): Parashock 1 (Citizen)
Balance bearing / direction hairspring:Counterclockwise
Moveable stud:yes
Adjust mechanism:Hairspring key
Construction:
  • lever
  • escape wheel, seconds wheel, third wheel, mainspring barrel
  • center minute wheel
Construction type:solid construction
Winding mechanism:yoke winding system
Setting lever spring:3 hole(s)
Features:
  • SCD (direct center seconds)
  • QG (date indication (aperture))
  • JG (weekday indication (aperture))
  • RDR (date corrector)
  • AUT (selfwinding)
Inventory number:16001

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