that's way cool. I think the animation is wonderful! It's a really lovely watch design too, even besides the fact you pixeled it!

Nice, but try to add frames for a fluid movement of the gears.

I only recoginsed it because I wrote about using it as a reference in a peice of art coursework :)

Hrm, please post references the next time you use them for a piece. Thanks for the good find photocopier.

http://davinciautomata.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/clock_screen02.jpg

based on this I can see ^_^

 Thanks for the constructive criticism. Right as remaining some off time which one more will add for me, two frames of mechanisms.
 

I'm assuming this was done with layers (hopefully) and if so it really is deserving of the piece to go back and give the same fluidity you applied to the actual hand as to the gears. I'm a big fan of clockwork and watches, and I think since you have such a fancy hectic design the contrast between the fast-ticking hand and some slower rotating gears in back would be great.

agree as said to add some more frames: the gears seems to move back and forth thus producing a bad overall animation

 I agree, the shading and shape is perfect, but with a little work in the BG animation, it could be awesome-er.

A shame that the bg has only 2 frames. It would rock with a better animation.