Clockwork Cufflinks
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I sat at the huge timber worktable. The inner-workings of hundreds of watches spread out before me in apparent chaos. “At the eye of the storm,” I smiled quietly to myself and selected two identical main plates from the piles of slight variations. I looked at them carefully under the desk light, chromed brass, a cavity here, two circular recesses, shot through with fixing holes. “What this needs,” I thought as the fingers of my right hand rummaged through catalogued boxes of cogs and fly wheels, “is a bit of brass to contrast just here.” I slotted two identical cogs into the circular recesses, “and a fly wheel just here, a main spring like that...”My fingers seemed to know exactly where what I needed next was hiding, or perhaps each part, in pairs, flew to my fingers. Behind me the machine ground and hissed. The light flickered and went out. I swore, stood up, and leaving the incomplete cufflinks on the work table, went to fix the machine.
