A Clock that Spells

Here’s a clock that is easy for anyone to read, but the mechanism that displays it is something else. Christiaan Postma designed it to mechanically spell out the time.

I put together more than 150 individual clockworks and made them work together to become one clock.  I show the progress of time by letting the numbers be written in words by the clockworks. Reading clockwise,  the time being is visible through a word and readable by the completeness of the word, 12 words from “one” to “twelve”.

Watch how the clock face changes here. Unfortunately, it’s an artwork that is not available to purchase.