Here is a short entry for today, but with a good video to watch. Here is a compilation of video footage, much of it time lapse footage of watch and watch movement operation. A good deal of it is of vintage manually wound mechanical chronograph movements. I like this video for a couple of reasons. First, it makes use of well functioning watch that have had nice lifespans, is really and not computer graphics, and the choice of music represents the refinement required to make any of these watches operate.

This video was done by Morgan Schmidt who is a cinematographer. His website is located at Visionsmadereal.net. This enjoyable minute and a half film represents one of the better watch movement closeup films out there. You really get a sense of the mystere involved in just how complex watch movements are, and the delicate ballet that goes underneath what appears to be basic time telling operation.  You need some good quality cameras to shoot videos like this though, as most are not capable of such extreme macro cinematography (or photography for that matter).