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restricting a machine to mechanical operations takes severe engineering effort - what you are doing is just playing with words. you can program to display a time on a watch running Python inside - but you probably would have to research for years before coming up with a reliable and usable mechanical watch - not to mention the advanced features at display here.



Playing with words is the point, in this case. The distinctions between art and engineering are as real as the words we use to describe them.




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