Codex Mechanical Watch

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Codex Mechanical Watch

A complex 31-part mechanical watch animation built entirely with SVG and code.

bySRKDAN

Watch Escapement challenge

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Description

A coded product animation where a mechanical watch opens to reveal a working gear train and escapement. It features 31 coordinated SVG parts with physically related motion, ratio-linked gears, and an exploding view of bridges and screws on a unified timeline.

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Details

Why this is interesting: Demonstrates impressive SVG coding and physical constraint logic produced via a single reusable prompt.
Attributed to: @srkdan
Built with: FLUX 3 Video GPT-5.6 Sol K2.7 Code North Mini Code Grok Video 1.5 GPT Image 2 GPT-5 Codex
Tags: #svg #animation #mechanical #engineering

Discovered: X
First posted: X · Aug 7, 2026
Listed: Added 16d ago
Build: Strong
Models: Strong

Prompt

“Build one 8–15s coded product animation where a familiar object opens to reveal a working mechanism. Use 20+ constrained parts, physically related motion, a camera, H.264 output, full-decode + thumbnail QA.”

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