I don't wear a mechanical watch anymore (I found the calorie-counting for smartwatches made losing weight a bit easier for me), but I've always loved clockwork

I don't wear a mechanical watch anymore (I found the calorie-counting for smartwatches made losing weight a bit easier for me), but I've always loved clockwork solutions. Occasionally I'll fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes of pre-computer solutions to problems, usually involving lots of gears and springs and a lot of cleverness on the designers end. It fascinates me how much stuff has become trivial since the advent of the transistor.