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Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
In May 2022, someone posted to Hacker News Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog post explaining how mechanical watch movements work. Since then, his blog has been my absolute favorite corner of the Internet.
I highly encourage the curious reader to check out this YouTube video of a very skilled and equally witty watchmaker servicing a Hamilton watch featuring this exact movement. Armed with a pair of helping hands and a set of self-closing tweezers, I found the process of building up the exploded model of a scrap watch movement to be very satisfying. Finally, some thin transparent nylon sewing thread attaches the mainplate to a pegwood stick that allows me to suspend the whole assembly over a mold, ready for casting resin.
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