Watch How Watches Work [Watches]

How do those second hands keep ticking off the minutes, and minute hands the hours, and hours the days? A similar way they have got since long before this 1949 explanatory video was made: gears, springs, and much more.

I’m having a difficult time deciding which I adore more, the biggie-sized watch innards model or the undeniable fact that our narrator likely went on to voice his share of Cold War-era Atom bomb safety videos. [ OnFocus via Kottke ]

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