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I don't know why, but I find watch mechanics super fascinating. Few favorites for people with spare time (and lots of money if one wants to buy these): Tourbi
by zuzatm 4y ago
I don't know why, but I find watch mechanics super fascinating.
Few favorites for people with spare time (and lots of money if one wants to buy these):
Tourbillon: a watch complication where the main mechanism is mounted on a rotating wheel so that gravity doesn't affect the watch in a single direction.
Spring drive: A very recent mechanism that produces a perfect sweeping motion of the seconds hand. It combines both mechanical power (no battery) with a quartz crystal in a super cool way.
Minute repeater: a mechanical way for a blind person to tell the time.
- yboris 4y agoI hope you've seen this then: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
- zuzatm 4y agoI did. It a beautiful and very educational website! :)
- bitexploder 4y agoThey are generally some of the finest machining and metal work you can buy, really cool stuff to see as a hobby machinist.
- JohnBooty 4y agoAnd for about $100, you can still buy a mechanical Seiko with a see-through caseback so you can watch everything in motion. A gateway drug for many... but also a fine stopping point because Seikos are wonderful machines in their own right. (Although, Seiko is doing away with their most affordable mechanical models, all the newer ones are $200+)