I take a lot of photos in the course of clock restoration work for documentation purposes. I just added one more page to my site where I put several photos of clock cogs. My intention was to present clocks interiors in a rather free way, hence the title of the page is On the Margin of Photo Documentation: na marginesie
The only negative comments, I’d make – and I am just nit-picking – are that perhaps the drop shadows are a little too heavy. I’d just reduce the opacity to around hal of what it is now.
Secondly, it is great that you have animated it, but anyone who knows anything about clocks will know that escape wheels don’t rotate in that way. My father was a clock and watch repairer, so I lived and breathed them when I was a kid and that escape swinging back and forth is particularly annoying.
The embossed type, both in font and execution, needs work to be plausible (my day job is typographically-obsessed designer)
It is pleasure to meet a person who can identify an escape wheel.
As I mentioned this page was meant to be informal and I used this swing animation as it is close to pendulum movement so obviously associated with a clock.
When I was around 12-13 years old, one afternoon in the school holidays, when I had nothing to do, he gave me an old 8-day movement and some tools and said something like, ‘Have fun son and take that to pieces’. After about half an hour, I proudly went back to him with all the pieces now strewn across a piece of newspaper.
‘Now put it back together’
Took hours and hours to figure it out. Once I’d done it, he just smiled and said, ‘Next time, you’ll remember the order you took things apart’
Hi Zbr, very nice page and I appreciate your patience in creating it !
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Thanks for the inspiration