Clock Corpus Christi Cambridge Chronophage

Gold clock with grasshopper escapement(chronophage) at corpus christi cambridge

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• Clock
• Corpus
• Christi
• Cambridge
• Chronophage
• Grasshopper
• escapement

[Masquerade37]

Punny song. I absolutely love this clock for more reasons than I could explain. I wish I could go see it in person.

[lanceturvey]

sorry you thought the song "Punny", I thought it was quite fitting.

[untitleddrummer88]

Sirs, you are raving.

[lightflower]

I think its weird and creepy.

[mearcat74]

The round shape that looks like it was pressed sheet metal was in fact created by submerging it in water and using an explosion to force it against a an object to creat the shape

[unambitious]

Amazing design, but a million$?

[azarimanka]

if you had ever seen it close up you would realise that they fit together incrdibly well.

[CaptainChaos]

It's not a locust or even a grasshopper. It's a chronophage; a "time-eater". It eats the seconds, minutes and hours as they pass by.

[Descalabro]

Something about the grasshopper doesn't fit the clock. I find it awesome, but it's almost as if the clock was designed by a person and the grasshopper by another. They could have made both elements in gold or both of them darker and the metaphor would still work; but then I also like the idea of the parasite grasshopper, it's just that it gives a cheap look to the watch. I also wonder why did they use those big wheels instead of hands with leds on the edge runing behind a perforated dial.

[SPANISH1000]

Poor grasyhoper he will walk for an eternity.

[outled]

theres definitely something strange about this clock, it has me fascinated, it reminds me off the cracked globe outside the vatican museum. I heard it cost one million to make which i find very odd because its not a very complicated mechanism or design. To me it represents some giant breakthrough concerning timetravel possibly.

[pittedthighs]

clock is satanic!

[chloe11987]

looks gorgous especially when dark as it all lights up in blue lights