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They are impressive technically. I love mechanical things.

• hoseja 3y ago
  I just wish they had more useful evolution in the last 50~100 years.
  • inhumantsar 3y ago
    there 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 ago
    They 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....