What is it about mechanical clocks? Maybe it’s the gears, or the soft tick-tocking that they make? Or maybe it’s the pursuit of implausible mechanical perfection. Combine mechanical clocks ...

When it comes to mechanical timepieces, we’re used to seeing mechanisms stuffed with tiny gears and wheel ... re perhaps less used to seeing is a clock that uses chains and sprockets, and ...

Making a mechanical Lego clock that keeps time for a billion years ... The escapement wheel moves one tooth per second, and multiple gear trains transmit motion to display everything from days ...