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I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

19 pointsby tomasslaviceklast Thursday at 3:35 PM9 commentsview on HN

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Zee2today at 12:09 AM

This is covered in Claudeish, had to stop reading. I have to read enough of this at work...

>What sits behind them is a calibre I had to solve the way a real one is solved, and this is why I bother.

>A skeleton is a load-bearing machine with the metal taken away down to the last safe gram, so what is left is whatever carries a force, and no spoke is wider than its job.

>Running and buildable are different questions, and the second is harder.

>A drawn movement is a claim. Before anything gets a surface, I test it as a machine.

If this isn't Claude-prose then the author has been reading too much of it...

(oh, Pangram gives the entire thing 100%)

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xnxtoday at 12:52 AM

Interesting, but title is missing the key word "Garmin".

"How I build a mechanical Garmin watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears"