MetMo Brass Gear Train

The product and pictures of the product are different from the one shown in advertisement videos. In the promotional videos you can see both stacks have the same number of gears, 7 each for a total of 14 which would only give you a ratio of 1:8192 and my guess is that they noticed that which led to them adding another gear for 15 total to get to the advertised 1:16384, which is great, however, they could only easily fix this, by adding a gear to the stack that doesn't have the locking pin cause otherwise the locking pin wouldn't fit because it would be to short. Because the locking pin stack is now 1 gear shorter than the other means that the last gear of that stack has only a 1:8192 ratio, meaning you'd only need 8192 rotations of the top gear to fit the locking pin back. So for the full gear train experience you'd have to make the bottom gear of the locking stack rotate twice to get the intended 16384 rotations. Normally I would let this slide due to being a technicality however since MetMo prides itself on accuracy and precision I just can't in this case which is why I'm giving it a 4/5 stars. It's still a fun and fantastic product working (mostly) as advertised. This is not a too serious review just something that's bugs me, loving precision and accuracy myself.

Pretty boring and really rather expensive - what it does is probably not really worth doing and mreley confirms i have too much money to waste. I must try not to make such silly impluse purchases - never again -- hopefully

Beautiful engineering and craftsmanship! It feels great to hold and even makes a nice whirring sound when spun on a lower gear. I love the challenges of making a full rotation and disassembling/reassembling.