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- Videos
- How a Mechanical Watch Works, from Time+Tide Watches
- How a Watch Works, a 1949 movie by the Hamilton Watch Company, courtesy of MidwestDiamondWatch
- How a Watch Works: Mechanical Movement
- How It Works: Mechanical Watch
- How the Rack and Snail Bell Striking Mechanism on a Tower Clock Works by Trevor Murphy
- How Tower Clocks Work by Trevor Murphy
- An Introduction to Antique Clocks - Introductory Video, from the National Watch & Clock Museum
- An Introduction to Antique Clocks, from the National Watch & Clock Museum
- Chapter 1 - How a Clock Works
- Chapter 2 - The Going Train
- Chapter 3 - The Power Source
- Chapter 4 - The Escapement
- Chapter 5 - The Timing Source
- Chapter 6 - The Beat vs. Period
- Chapter 7 - The Wheel Train
- Chapter 8 - Movement vs. Force
- Chapter 9 - The Motion Works
- Chapter 10 - Escapement Theory
- Chapter 11 - Deadbeat Escapement
- Chapter 12 - Disassembly
- Chapter 13 - Mainspring and Spring Winder
- Chapter 14 - Reassembly
- Chapter 15 - Putting the Clock in Beat
- Chapter 16 - Setting the Rate
- Mechanical Watch Animation
- Tower Clock: The Anchor Escapement and the Pendulum by Trevor Murphy
- Descriptions
- About Watch Movements by David Boettcher
- The Fusee Mechanism Described from Antique Clock Guy
- How an Accutron Works by Sean C
- How Atomic Clocks Work from HowStuffWorks
- How Clocks Work from Gift of Time Clocks
- How a Chronograph Works by Mark Headrick, with detailed photos
- How a Minute Repeater Works by Mark Headrick, with detailed photos
- How do radio-controlled clocks that set themselves to the atomic clock in Colorado work? from How Stuff Works
- How Pendulum Clocks Work from HowStuffWorks
- How Quartz Watches Work from HowStuffWorks
- Inside a Wind-up Alarm Clock from HowStuffWorks
- Radio Controlled Clocks, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- What Are The Jewels in a Watch For? from PrestigeTime.com
- Also see Horological Science for more rigorous explanations of timekeeping mechanisms
- Animated Clockworks and Watchworks
- A History of the Evolution of Electric Clocks by J. E. Bosschieter, with some animations
- Animation of a Turret Clock Remontoire by Mark Frank
- Antikythera Mechanism
- The Watch Escapement - An Animated Explanation of Function from TimeZone
- Watch Movement Animations from James Provost
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