How a Mechanical Watch Works

4 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by josh-sematic

4 Comments

cebert

13 hours ago

The interactive animations in this post are neat.

bediger4000

13 hours ago

This is very, very good. Clear explanation of a mechanical system is hard, but the author made it easy.

Moment of inertia... do they calculate it for those tiny parts, or is it cheaper to just cut and try? The tolerances required must be exceedingly tiny.

josh-sematic

12 hours ago

I’m sure you can get fairly close at design time but then need to tune it (I think “regulate” is the term of art) to get it just right before sending the watch off.