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by harperlee 629 days ago
Well to be pedantic: the time-keeping part isn’t the gears but a pendulum.

The spring gives energy to the pendulum, but that can’t effect more than in its amplitude: the period of a given pendulum is constant. Later springs demultiply the tick tack of the pendulum into desired units.

The heart of the clock is that choke on energy though a period.

Thats also why the famous phrase: clocks dont measure time but other clocks.

(Please dont mind the grammar: writing on mobile)

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Or a balance wheel