I'd just like to highlight that this is one of quite a few things of a similar incredible amount of detail that they have done: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
Discussed here three years ago: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=31261533
With +4K points, it is being ranked #8 of best HN submissions of all time, a true classic indeed!
Where can one see the list of best ranked HN posts?
Pressing enter in the search field on the bottom of the page takes you to a search with no filters, sorted on popularity. Or like this, I guess: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
As well as the YouTube channel Branch Education's amazing explanation.
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/