Written on October 30, 2008 – 3:06 am | by Maria Mihale |


Sometimes, having a wall clock may turn in a genuine burden, a very unpleasant and unbearable thing, because you have to stand excessively close to the device in order to read it properly. This happens when the placement of the hands are very difficult to see and unravel from a considerable distance. Taking this into consideration, you probably wonder why people are keen on having something like this in their houses. Well, I imagine they pick up clocks like this for one reason and one reason only: the overall look is fascinating.

Homeloo’s 16-inch large Jumbo Gear Wall Clock it’s actually a gear made clock that consists of more than 50 gears which are all running. If you think this has a decorative purpose only, I’m afraid you are wrong, because the gears are really turning, including the small-sized ones. The big centered one turns clockwise, while the other gears turn counterclockwise.

There’s no doubt about it, the device looks like a clock that has exploded with the bloating of its own horological guys: those 50 gears are all exposed on the surface of the clock and draw stares from anyone who tries to tell time with it.

If the hands of this oversized wall clock (and when I call it this way I do it due to the numerous gears which the clock is made of, as it measures 16 x 16-inches and weighs 1000 grams approximately) were multicolored, it would have helped a great deal. However, with them being one color it does simplify the look of the overall clock. On the other hand, having fifty exposed gears is plenty to clutter the clock up by themselves without adding a contrasting color to the clock hands.

The device takes 4D-cell batteries to keep the entire mechanism turning and is now available from Homeloo for $78 USD.

(Source gadgets.boingboing.net)