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Slightly offtopic: If anyone missed Bartosz Ciechanowski's website explaining how mechanical watsches work, you sold at least look at it once. It is a piece of
by jansan 4y ago
Slightly offtopic: If anyone missed Bartosz Ciechanowski's website explaining how mechanical watsches work, you sold at least look at it once. It is a piece of art.
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
- harywilke 4y agoI love that all the diagrams are rotatable in 3d. it's such a great write up of how a mechanical watch works. The Youtube channel linked at the end (https://www.youtube.com/c/WristwatchRevival/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/WristwatchRevival/videos) is a good companion to see the pieces in action.
- technothrasher 4y agoYou can learn a lot about how a watch works by getting a few old inexpensive pocket watch movements off eBay and playing with them. They’re bigger movements than a wrist watch, and thus easier to work with, but most of the concepts are the same. I did just this a couple years ago and got hooked on horology, although I actually moved the other direction and now have a big collection of 18th and 19th century clocks.