I watched:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSQNEPbQOiI

over the weekend, and they highlighted this assembly:

http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/jcevans/Carman%20Thorndike%20Evans.pdf

with a claim to the effect that it was a gear mechanism unknown to modern
watchmakers.     Given that there are such things as:

http://507movements.com/

I find that alone fascinating.

They then go on to say that according to their best guess - it was probably
Aristotle himself who invented the Antikythera device.   :O

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