I love this article so much. Demystified so much about how watches work.

This has got to be one of the best explanations of anything I've ever seen in any subject.

Thank you for sharing - hope you have a great day.

You're in for a treat then! Bartosz has a bunch of other insanely well done explainers on his website, with easily inspectable JavaScript too. Some of my favourites are the watch, the engine and the GPS ones, though they're all fantastic.

> easily inspectable JavaScript

More amazingly, he writes it all by hand (I asked).

Indeed, very impressive!

Seems like we were given an early Christmas present haha, he just dropped a new post!

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/

That’s fantastic.

insane! thanks for sharing

> In case you haven't seen it before... > Shares amazing link there was a 0% chance I'd ever see in my life if not for this comment

It is quite famous in hn and discussed a lot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591084

His whole blog is a treasure trove:

https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/

https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

Some things just get brought up a lot. Like when ever something about the antikythera mechanism someone will link to Clickspring.

You're one of today's lucky 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Except I don't think 10 000 people discover https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ every day.

I'm not expecting 10 000 people to discover https://xkcd.com/1053/ every day either.

Time for a longitudinal study.

I just spent a wonderful hour reading the whole thing and playing with all the demonstrations. Thanks for sharing.

The link is superb. Thanks a lot

This blog started my love for mechanical watches. Love how intricate and cohesive the entire mechanism is.

One of the reasons I love mechanical watches is that I've never tried to fully understand them, and the idea that there's a purely mechanical thing, that does something seemingly so simple yet magically and reliably, gives me a sense of wonder and appreciation for engineering and art.

I'm really on the fence about whether or not I want to read this amazing looking article or just live on in ignorance :)

I think that link will only improve your appreciation for how magical a mechanical watch is. Especially when you consider people have been making them or a few hundred years.