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For me mechanical watches are about appreciating the precision, engineering and craftsmanship. Sure you can get better precision with your phone or even any ch
by ig0r0 3y ago
For me mechanical watches are about appreciating the precision, engineering and craftsmanship.
Sure you can get better precision with your phone or even any cheap watch with a quartz movement.
But it just seems amazing that something so small made just out of springs and levers, so small moving mechanical parts with no electronics, can keep time with a -2/+2 seconds accuracy in any wrist position (gravity) and any temperature (stuff shrinks and expands).
- nusl 3y agoThey are impressive technically. I love mechanical things.
- hoseja 3y agoI just wish they had more useful evolution in the last 50~100 years.
- inhumantsar 3y agothere absolutely has been innovation. check out the Seiko Spring Drive
- throw0101d 3y ago> I just wish they had more useful evolution in the last 50~100 years. Diminishing returns / asymptotic change. I think the last major advancement was the coaxial escapement in the 1970s: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_escapement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_escapement and as per a sibling comment, the spring drive: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoEorK6elZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoEorK6elZM * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Drive
- iancmceachern 3y agoThey have! It's just hidden in your everyday world. The incredible engines we have now, the robotics, self opening car doors, surgical robots, those heart valves that they can implant through an artery in your groin and expand in your heart, surgical navigation and spine/brain surgery, space travel....
- euroderf 3y agoYou'd get much the same effect from carrying around a high-end tiny-size model railway engine. Try Z scale.
- iancmceachern 3y agoTotally. They don't need to be expensive though. A Seiko 5 or a swatch mechanical automatic are 100 bucks and capture all this wonder also.
- ig0r0 3y agoI had a Seiko SNK809 and I was quite impressived what they managed to manufacture for just about 100 euros.