kBillingsley wrote:
I love everything about clocks, specifically mechanical weight or spring-driven ones. The tick, to me, only means that it is working.
I used to be like that when I was a kid / teen. I had a mechanical weight-driven cuckoo clock just beside my bed in my room that I loved. I put a bulb behind the bird that was on only when the cuckoo-program was active so I could see a moving projected silhouette of it on the opposite wall at night. The sound didn't bother me, often I just counted the cycles half-asleep guessing what hour it could be. It changed over time, now ticking clocks really bother me, especially the electrical second-ticking types. Their noise level is not even, it changes as the second pointer walks around. A mechanical clock has a much smoother, acoustic sound, and the variations in its ticking are much subtler. If you know a mechanical clock well you can tell from its ticking if it's close to run-down or just winded up.