This is the article that got me into mechanical watches. I can’t afford a super expensive one, but I got my second last fall and it not only has a chronograph function but also has radioactive tritium tubes in the hands and time notches so it glows in the dark under its own power!
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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Did I miss the self winding mechanism? To me the most impressive mechanical watches are the self winders.
"Automatic winding", about 90% of the way through
I love seeing this masterpiece of an article shared around. Really incredible stuff!
Omg the winding rotor moves as you spin the animation around!
Yea! That was amazing!
I have managed to lose track of time while reading about how we track time.
I've seen this before, and it's a paragon of how to explain and demonstrate mechanical concepts.
This person needs to be hired by someone full time to produce this kind of page for all the things.
Thanks for reminding me it exists.
***edit to add:
Omg I found archives of more!
https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
Sadly, 99% of today's population doesn't have even 1% of the attention span required to view, much less interact with and understand, this kind of presentation.
yeah, that website is a treasure trove of amazing interactive mechanical demos.
Respect to them for modeling and animating that, making it render real time in web for the demonstration, that's sick
And the spring sliders are springy!
Truly incredible article