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Needa Moment

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4. Always baffled me
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 12:01 AM
Aug 2014

how watchmakers and machinists of that time were able to punch such micro gears and cams, let alone the type and fine tuning in tensioning of it all to run as smoothly as it did.

The brains behind such inventiveness - incredible.
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