Unlike quartz analogue watches (compared to mechanical watches) regular pencils do not contain moving parts (the narrowest definition of "mechanism"), while mechanical pencils do.

inspiration: Chyrosran22's rant (YouTube Link) on the fact that the term "mechanical keyboard" does not has a widely accepted definition.

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siipale@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 286d

Maybe regular pencil would contain moving parts if it was a quartz analogue pencil?