Rediscovering the Romance of Travel Clocks(acollectedman.com)
26 points by austinallegro | 5 comments
A Collected Man journal article about vintage travel clocks and their history and appeal to collectors.
#horology on Hacker News
6 stories tagged horology, newest first.
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock(pointinthecloud.com)
510 points by avidly | 113 comments
Personal blog post recounting a Saturday spent trying to fix the nineteenth-century clock in the abandoned Portobello police station tower near Edinburgh.
Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)
700 points by razin | 118 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog article explaining how a mechanical watch mechanism works, with draggable 3D demonstrations.
Making a watch from scratch(imgur.com)
478 points by dcminter | 73 comments
An Imgur album documenting the process of making a mechanical watch from scratch; the capture shows a Reddit network-policy block page instead.
On clock faces, 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV(museum.seiko.co.jp)
333 points by malingo | 225 comments
Seiko Museum Ginza article explaining why clock dials with Roman numerals often show 4 as IIII instead of IV.
Mechanical Watch (2022)(ciechanow.ski)
900 points by Akcium | 153 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works, with draggable 3D demonstrations of its mechanism.