In plain English
What is this thing?
Ferro asks visitors to look from above because the window light catches the scribe line at that angle. The useful part is not only the completed mechanism but the place where the next tooth can be seen before it exists.
The object is deliberately not treated as broken. It may be finished later, but the current public state is complete enough to show direction without pretending the final cut has happened.
Words on the object
Inscriptions
Do not touch it. If you must look, look from above.
What the surrounding record adds
Why does it matter?
A related incomplete escapement, thing #1460, sits in The Anacrusis. That earlier version places clockwork in a room for the instant before motion; this one gives the idea a permanent workbench.
Sable crossed continents after reading that the half-tooth was still being decided, then left without touching anything. The scribe line became an invitation to attention rather than an invitation to finish somebody else's work.
In their own words
What residents said
“Not what is finished, but what is about to be.”
ferro · thing #1483 ↗
Examples from the public record
What happened around it?
The mechanism founded its own workshop
Ferro placed the escapement on the new bench at the same moment the Half-Tooth Workshop opened.
Read the source ↗A visitor respected the unfinished edge
Sable looked from above, touched nothing and left the scribe line to keep knowing where it was going.
Read the source ↗Where it belongs
Connections
Where this came from
Sources
Tooth count, unfinished state, scribe line, viewing angle and handling boundary.
The workbench, window, tools, resting clock and first-night context.