The escapement as a 250-year-old oscillator, jewels as bearings, the quartz crisis as a textbook case of technology disruption, and why a fifty-dollar Casio beats a five-thousand-dollar Rolex on every measurable spec yet still loses the argument — what watchmaking teaches an engineer about tolerances, serviceability, and the difference between accuracy and reverence.
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Mechanical Watches: Precision Engineering You Can Wear