Nº 06 · Explainer
How to use a tachymeter
Time one kilometre, or one box off a line, and the ring tells you how many an hour.
11 Nov 2026
Watch mechanisms, explained in 3D
See what happens inside a watch.
Short reels that take a watch apart and build it back up, one gear at a time. Every part meshes the way it would in a real movement: no faked connections, no hand-waving.
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How we make them
Built in code, not faked in an edit.
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One movement underneath
Every build starts from the same base calibre: barrel, gear train, escapement and balance, module-correct and kinematically linked.
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The complication in red
What's new in each episode is coloured red, so you can follow the one thing that matters from the first frame.
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Checked frame by frame
Each reel is framing-checked, reviewed on every contact sheet and rendered locally before it goes out.
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