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HOWTO build an analog watch

Cory Doctorow at 7:55 am Sat, Jul 15, 2006

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Gordon sez, "Extensive site documenting (with many interesting close-up photos) the process of creating a handmade analog wristwatch. Including the movement!" My grandfather was a watchmaker who learned his trade in the Soviet Union while he was a war-refugee. He had a huge desk full of tens of thousands of movements and partial movements and I loved playing with them -- he even taught me a little of the trade. I had thought it would be like computer programming, but it's really nothing like it -- more like building an incredibly elaborate game of Mousetrap through a microscope. Link (Thanks, Gordon!)

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