I Built a Mechanical Watch Face for Garmin—and Solved a Real Gear Train for a Watch That Has No Gears
I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears
I design mechanical watch faces for Garmin, and people often ask if the wheels are just a picture. They are a picture, but behind them sits a calibre I had to solve like a real one: tooth counts, positions, and a train that actually runs. This is why I bother, and what I learned about making a digital dial that could pass for a watchmaker's work.
That is the whole reason small seconds sit where they do on a real watch. Nobody chose the position. The train chose it.
- Zee2
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%)
- xnx
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"