#skeleton clock

[auntieclock]

Sometimes you take a picture for work and it slaps so hard you gotta share it elsewhere. Steev here is helping keep a skeleton clock on it's standwhile i run some tests on it.

[mrvelocipede]

Botober 2022 clockwork prompt #8. SKELETON CLOCK

[neirwoluasqi]

via Skeleton Clock

[brassandbolts]

Skeleton clocks

[nationalwatchclockmuseum]

Skeleton clock with orrery. Orrery driven by an 8-day half hour striking clock. All bearings in clock are miniature ball bearings. Stainless steel screws. Lacquered brass parts. Maintaining power. Skeleton clock uses silvered brass ring dial with Roman numerals in indicate hours. Orrery also uses silvered brass ring dial with months. Mounted on round wooden base and covered with glass dome.

The orrery of this clock is driven by an 8-day spring driven movement using a fusee and maintaining power. A passing strike is rung on the half hour. All of the clock bearings and some in the orrery are made of miniature ball bearings. Stainless steel screws are used throughout the movement. The sun at the center of the orrery shows the Tropical year and the signs of the Zodiac, rotating once every 365.2423 days. Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, rotates once in 88.01 days. the next planet, Venus makes one revolution in 224.76 days. The Earth sphere is tilted 23.2 degrees and always points to the pole star. The moon sphere, inclined a 5 degrees, rotates once in 29.53023 days.

[hellotailor]

There's a subgenre of clocks called "skeleton clocks," which despite the name are not typically made out of dead things. The descriptor is visual, as in a skeleton leaf. They're clocks where the brass plates have been finely cut away into patterns and swirls. In the mid 19th century a few (and by "a few" I mean only a handful as showpieces by famous or skilled makers) were made in papier mache, ivory, and bone. Bone is a poor material for clock wheels due to humidity issues and it isn't very tough, hence this mammoth ivory watch having all the important bits made out of metal. For obvious reasons, a bone clock would be absolutely ideal for Hannibal Lecter.

-- Costuming and design in NBC's Hannibal: Hannibal Lecter's wristwatch.

[bossbrownmark-blog]

Time for Halloween. Skeleton clock made from Altoid tin,springs, forks, jar lids and bottle caps.

Boss Brown Art Studios