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  • WatchandThings@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Just in case this is a serious question.

    Mechanical watch is a watch that’s purely run by springs and gears without any electronic parts. Easy way to think about it is imagining a wind up toy that unwinds very slowly, and the unwinding is moving small watch hands instead of making a bunny jump. This is an old technology that was used before battery run watches became possible, and most of the luxury watches still use this old technology. Most of watch collecting hobby revolves around mechanical watches.

    • PluckedEyeball@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Aren’t those just automatic watches? I thought most people don’t have too many automatic watches in their collection?

      • Sad_Kitchen2530@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        An automatic watch has a rotor that winds the watch through movement on the wrist. It’s mechanical. But there are mechanical watches that are not automatic and require hand winding to power the watch, lacking the rotor that “automatically” winds the watch