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I question the rationale behind free-sprung regulating mechanisms… A lot of people like to claim that free sprung is better because it’s less error prone, as it doesn’t have an index lever to adjust the active length of the hairspring which might accidentally shift if the watch is bumped… However, free sprung movements have a similar lever to adjust the overall position of the hair spring for beat-error corrections (which apparently still makes it a free-sprung mechanism since it’s an…