Skip to content
Tech News

Watch How Watches Work

By

Reading time 1 minute

Comments (0)

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

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

Explore more on these topics

Share this story

Sign up for our newsletters

Subscribe and interact with our community, get up to date with our customised Newsletters and much more.