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The Quest for an Accurate Mechanical Watch Model

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11mo ago· 16 min readenOpinion

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The article discusses the author's search for a specific type of mechanical watch model that accurately represents the assembly of a watch movement, highlighting the lack of availability of such models despite existing resin castings of watch components.

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Apparently, nobody builds such models.

Despite my best efforts, I haven't found anyone who makes what I'm after, and I have a sneaking suspicion as to why that is.

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I figured that surely, someone has had this idea and built it before. On eBay you'll find cubes of resin embedding various random components from mechanical watches, but they are typically sold as "steampunk art" and bear little re

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