Follow Along As a Watchmaker Compares Japanese and Swiss Construction
you probably can’t take apart fancy watches at home, but this video will take you through the process.
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Understanding How a Watch Works
A mid-20th century industrial film explains how a watch works.
Hand-Cutting and Fire-Hardening Steel Files Using Ancient Techniques
Making a set of files just like the ancients, from mild, case-hardened steel.
3D Print a Working Watch
Is 3D printing technology now reliable enough to print a sophisticated watch?
Watch Parts Made into Mechanical Creatures
Chicago-based jeweler Justin Gershenson-Gates crafts these mechanical creatures from watch components, using winding stems for legs and watch faces for exoskeletons.
Barnacle-covered 300-year-old pocket watch revealed
Via Nature comes this amazing video of an x-ray trip through a barnacle-encrusted lump from a 17th century shipwreck. It reveals the workings of a very sophisticated, gorgeous watchwork mechanism inside. The researchers (from National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh) who used this x-ray technology are excited about the prospects of using it on future, similarly […]
MacDowall single-pin escapement in Lego Technic
Those interested in mechanisms and horology will probably enjoy watching the hypnotic action of this single-pin escapement executed in Lego by YouTuber horolophile. An “escapement,” FYI, is the mechanism in a timepiece that converts continuous rotational motion into oscillating “back and forth” motion and makes it go tick-tock.
