Brass Bestiary

A watchmaker's apprentice completes brass animal automata inside a bevelled glass case. Fit gears, cams, belts and levers onto a pegboard chassis so one mainspring produces the motions each blueprint asks for — a heron that dips, a beetle that opens its wings, a five-joint peacock. Twenty-four puzzles across four chapters, a free bench, and a cabinet of finished creatures. No timer, no score: the reward is watching the mechanism perform.

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