March 12, 2017
The wheels on the watch
1. This is an awesome immersion in craft knowledge.
2. It is incomprehensible without that craft knowledge.
3. It is mesmerizing, in part because of its incomprehensibility.
4. The tools — many of which he makes for this task — are as beautiful as their results.
5. How much we must have loved clocks to have done this without these tools!
6. What sort of creatures are we that our flourishing requires doing hard things?
