Chapter 417 The Mechanic

A tourbillon is a watch regulating device. It is a landmark product of the pinnacle of mechanical watchmaking technology. It can greatly reduce the interference of gravity on mechanical watches, thereby significantly improving the timekeeping accuracy of watches.

Qin Mo understood the basic principles of a tourbillon, but it would be difficult for him to make one himself. After all, a tourbillon consists of more than seventy precision parts and must be lightweight enough. In this era where everything is basically done by hand, it is not much easier than engraving a magic array.

“Amanda, first make a batch of the most accurate timepieces, regardless of the size and shape of the clocks. Then make a few more of these, which don’t need to be too accurate, but must be lightweight and exquisite.”

Qin Mo then took out a color rendering of various pocket watches, including many classic vintage watches from his previous life that had made him hesitate to buy them.

Qin Mo's painting skills were already quite good, perfectly expressing the stable and luxurious characteristics of the pocket watch, which also gave Amanda and the other vampires a sense of enlightenment.

"Your Highness, is this... a clock you carry with you?"

"Yes! So first of all, it has to be lightweight enough. If you make it bigger than a sesame seed cake, you definitely won't be able to sell it. It has to be able to be carried in your pocket."

Qin Mo explained the function and characteristics of pocket watches to them, especially the magnificent, luxurious and exquisite "aristocratic" style pocket watches, which hit the vampires' sweet spot, making them nod repeatedly as they listened.

"We must highlight the difference between the commoner version and the noble version. We need to make nobles willing to spend ten or a hundred times the price to buy the noble version, while the commoner version should be as simple in structure as possible so that ordinary craftsmen can mass-produce it."

Finally, Qin Mo said with difficulty, "There are only a few of you, and the production of this aristocratic pocket watch is insufficient!"

"Your Highness, please rest assured, I will have the Cartier family send enough craftsmen over!"

"Oh! You have connections with them?" Qin Mo was a little surprised. He knew about several famous watchmaking families in Xizhou, with Cardia being the most famous.

"Relationship? What makes them have anything to do with me? A bunch of mixed-bloods. If they weren't somewhat useful, the Prince would never have allowed them to be under the protection of Windsor Castle."

Seeing the matter-of-fact expressions on Old Bourne's and the other two vampires' faces, Qin Mo finally understood Isabel's status among the vampires. It turned out that she was also a tyrant with a large group of henchmen!

Old Bourne had already quietly straightened his much thinner hair and straightened his nose despite the pain. As for the bruises on his face, they were barely visible thanks to the powerful regenerative abilities of his vampire marquis status.

He became completely absorbed in the tourbillon blueprints after seeing them; the precise fit of the parts and the ingenious structural design fascinated the old man.

“Bourne, come with me to the forging workshop, that’s where you’ll work!” Qin Mo patted old Bourne on the shoulder, gesturing for him to follow her.

"I'm not going to be a blacksmith, I'm going to build this tourbillon!"

"Amanda is in charge of this; you're in charge of forging the ironware!"

"I don't do blacksmithing. I'm the best array master. I can only engrave arrays and make clocks, not blacksmithing!"

"First, do the job I set out for you well, and then you can do whatever you want. But if you can't even do a good job of forging iron, you're not qualified to be this tourbillon."

Qin Mo looked at the stubborn old vampire, then adopted a contemptuous expression, coldly pounding on Bourne's shattered heart.

"I'll show you what the mechanical processing technology of the vampires is like!" Old Bourne remained stubborn, but Qin Mo finally forced out the arrogance in his blood.

But soon, old Bourne's arrogance took a significant hit, as he saw for the first time in his life a forging machine the size of a house.

Vampires have very sensitive hearing, and being near a massive, thunderous forging hammer would be torture, but old Bourne just stared blankly at the enormous iron lump, his fascination no less than when he saw a tourbillon.

"You find a way... to make the equipment to process these parts... do you hear me...?"

Qin Mo shouted loudly and shoved a large stack of blueprints at Old Bourne. They were all large iron parts that were difficult to process, such as propellers, large planetary gear sets, and seemingly ordinary seamless steel pipes.

"What are these things used for?" Looking at Qin Mo's standard mechanical drawings, Byrne immediately felt the mechanical beauty contained within them.

"Don't ask questions you don't understand. You just need to make equipment that can quickly process these parts, or find a suitable processing method, and then you can go back and build a watchmaking workshop."

Old Bourne was furious. In this world, when it came to precision machining, the vampires were absolutely the best, without exception. And Bourne was one of the top mechanics among the vampires. Now, he was being told, "Don't ask questions you don't understand?"

In his haste, Old Bourne almost snapped at Qin Mo, but after looking at the massive forging hammer that was making a huge rumbling sound, he finally held back.

"You wait, there's no machine I, the great Marquis of Bourne, can't understand!"

Qin Mo looked at the vampire marquis who was engrossed in the blueprints, then turned and smiled slyly: "Even if you figure it all out, it'll just be a pile of incomplete parts drawings. You'll have no chance of understanding it without the assembly drawings. You'd better just stay here and design a simple machine tool for me! Hmph!"

Qin Mo wandered around the shipyard, eventually entering the most secluded area.

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