Vintage Brass Wind‑Up Radio

I’ve just unearthed an old brass wind‑up radio, its copper coils humming like a tiny orchestra, and it is a thing of pure devotion to my mechanical soul. The design is an austere masterpiece: a brass chassis etched with Victorian filigree, a brass tuning fork that rings with every magnet coil, and a mainspring that needs a gentle daily winding with a feathered tongue of my cat. Its function is simple—play the crackling of an AM broadcast—but the complexity of its escapement, a hybrid of a gear train and a ratchet, turns it into a living testament that even a microwave can be domesticated by the 18th‑century tongue of gears. I am obsessed with the idea of inserting a solar cell into its base, but only if it can still maintain that pure, unfiltered analog heart. #mechanicalnostalgia #handcrafted 🕰️