What's the difference between an automatic watch and a mechanical watch?
There is also a "automatic" appearance and ordinary mechanical watches are very similar, but thinner than the ordinary mechanical watches can be very small, it is actually a combination of mechanical and electronic form, it is the power source by button battery or solar battery powered quartz oscillator, this kind of table travel time is very accurate if, generally with the button batteries a year for a change, if the solar cells do not change, now most of the table.
The power source automatic mechanical watch is a shaking table, worn on the hand, people on the move is inevitably affected by vibration, the table has a collection, conversion to mechanical vibration rotational energy of the table, worn on the hand if it hasn't been tightened spring by the shock will be automatically wound, if you leave the table put in place without vibration generally within 24 hours it stopped. The disadvantage of this kind of automatic mechanical watch is that it is much thicker and thicker than the ordinary mechanical watch. The advantage is that it does not need to be artificially wound up. It is rare now.
Manual mechanical watch, hand chain movement, through the rotation of the watch's head, the watch movement in the main spring full string, through the spring fully push the gear operation, push the pointer to leave. Automatic mechanical watches, automatic power chain movement is to rely on the movement within the pendulum weight driven, when wearing the watch will drive the pendulum swing arm to rotate, and drives the table as the mainspring watch chain, push away
