Mechanical Watch: Exploded View

I like this, and respect the craft which went into making it. I still think an immersive 3D model you can interact with may be more functional to illustrate mechanisms.

The room of clockwork/ratchet mechanisms in "Musee des arts et metiers" in Paris is fantastic.

Or if nothing else, just put it on the center of a record player platter and film it for us please!

This! Yes please!

I proposed an archival function at my uni, for historical artifacts held in static collections e.g. the physics lab old computing gear. Turntable, slow rotate, static camera film, done.

This was actually pre-web: I wanted this put in the campus gopher!