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As promised sometime ago, I stated that we would look at some of the components that make up the Hager Commando Milsub. We first looked at the History of the Milsub and now we are going to take a look at the movement that powers the Hager Commando.
The Hager Commando is powered by the TY2806, a 21 jewel hand wound automatic hacking movement which beats at 21,600 beats per hour (bph) and features a quick set date at the 3 o’clock position and Novodiac shock absorber. It is a Miyota-style simplified construction with Seiko-style auto-winding. Before we get into the TY2806 movement let me first explain what an automatic is. Believe it or not it’s the most commonly asked question I receive, “What’s an automatic movement?”. Automatic watches, referred to as self-winding, are made up of about 130 or more parts that work together to tell time. Automatic movements mark the passage of time by a series of gear mechanisms, and are wound by the movement of your wrist as you wear it. They swinging of your arms provides energy to an oscillating rotor to keep the watch ticking. The gear train transmits the power to the escapement, which distributes the impulses, turning the balance wheel. The balance wheel is the time regulating organ of a mechanical watch, which vibrates on a spiral hairspring. Lengthening or shortening the balance spring makes the balance wheel go faster or slower to advance or retard the watch. The travel of the balance wheel from one extreme to the other and back again is called oscillation. Automatic watches are considered more satisfying to watch collectors (horologists) because of the engineering artistry that goes into the hundreds of parts that make up the movement.
The TY2806 automatic movement has a similar train layout to the Japanese Miyota 8215 movement, and the winding mechanism has a Seiko-style auto-winding ‘Magic Lever’ system inspired by Seiko. This provided Sea-Gull with a modern, simple and efficient full-sized wristwatch calibre that served as the basis of a myriad of complicated variants. The TY2806 movement is produced by Tijin Seagull in China. It is a cost-effective high quality design that is used by a lot of watch brands such as Android, Rotary, Ingersoll, Fossil, and Zodiac watches etc., One Swiss company uses the ST-16 ebauche in their watches but they brand it the CL888 and it is labeled Swiss Made.:smile-thumb2:is a very good and honest opinion about seagull movements.
