“We owned one chair, where our father would sit.”Īt the age of six, the discovery of a watch in his own house awoke his interest in watches. Daniels in an interview viewable on the Web of Stories, a Web site that compiles recorded interviews and personal life stories. “We ate our meals standing up around the table,” said Mr. 19, 1926, into a family with 11 children and modest means. Daniels was born in Edgware, North London, on Aug. “The precision achieved by Daniels forty years ago can only be obtained today with certain complex machines,” said Mr. The coaxial escapement, in contrast, transmits energy using a mechanism that reduces both friction and loss of energy, ensuring better chronometric performance and avoiding all the problems associated with lubricant-related deterioration. Traditional lever escapements, a feature invented in 1754 by another Englishman, Thomas Mudge, and largely used today, regulate time-keeping using a mechanism that generates friction, and must therefore be lubricated. “In a classification of horology inventors, Daniels is in first place,” said Osvaldo Patrizzi, the founder and former head of the specialist watch auctioneer Antiquorum, from New York. Daniels said on the Web site of Omega, the brand that ultimately acquired the rights to his invention. “The problems of viscosity had been addressed by watchmakers for hundreds of years and not solved until the coaxial escapement,” Mr. The invention has been hailed as unparalleled in 250 years of watchmaking. Daniels is credited with the invention in the 1970s of the coaxial escapement, a mechanism that helped improve the performance of mechanical watches by virtually eliminating the need for lubrication. He was the only watchmaker to be honored by Queen Elizabeth II with a citation recognizing him as a ‘‘Master Watchmaker, for services to Horology,’’ in his nomination as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or CBE.
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