how does a mechanical clock/watch works? What are the different gears present in a simple watch?
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You know how a spring can be compressed and it will, uh, *spring* back and forth? Imagine you had a spring that could do that extremely well without slowing down as fast as a traditional curly spring. [That would be this little thing](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/spring-broken-mechanical-watch-white-background-167198531.jpg). It sits inside a mechanical watch and is wound with a handle on the outside of the watch. It is specially designed to always spring back and forth once a second. Simply connect some gears in the right way, and those gears will tick exactly once a second.
I recommend this post on [the Mechanical Watch by Bartosz Ciechanowski](https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/). It got excellent animations to go along with the explanations.
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