CLOCK - Web-based Mechanical Clock

Mechanical clocks appeared in the late 13th century. The first were large mechanical tower clocks - weight-driven and regulated by verge-and-foliot escapement which determined the pace of the gear train (e.g. Westminster Abbey’s tower clock in London, from about 1290). In about 1510, a German mechanic P. Henlein (1480-1542) constructed spindle-regulated pocket watch (the so-called Nuremberg Egg), in which clock-weight was replaced by a wound up spring. Industrial production of clocks started in Switzerland at the end of the 16th century. The clock has been the symbol of accuracy and wealth for centuries.

Nowadays, mechanics has been replaced by electronics, and yet people have not forgotten the good old mechanical clock. That explains why we decided to digitalize an antique mechanical clock. All clock wheels have the right number of teeth and rotate at proper speed; rotation rates have been calculated for and applied to all wheels. The clock is always right, regardless of your geographical location as it adjusts to and sets itself right after your PC clock which tells local time in all parts of the world. Our digitalized clock could almost be taken for a swan-song to the age of mechanics. Wheels which were once so indispensable for a clock to run smoothely, seem to operate counterclockwise in our work as all wheels rotate in accordance with the right PC clock time and disregard the spring!