Telling Time

I love clocks. Not that I have many, but I do love them. Meaning: a selection of the enormous amount out there, since a lot of them are just plain weird and/or ugly, haha.

The chair is from 'Take-a-Seat' I once ordered

I started making some clocks and
two very small oldfashioned alarmclocks. With nice dials I looked for and found on the internet and on my laptop worked away the hands without the dial being distorted, a nice challenge. I wanted realistic clocks, meaning with real clockhands and therefore used (old) watches.

I wanted to show the selection of several clocks and the 2 alarmclocks here at once, but it all takes a bit longer than I hoped. So here's one that I finished, an industrial one with hands from an old travelalarmclock I never used anyway :) I made them a little rusty to match the dial and style of the clock. 

I wanted to have a rounded surface and wanted to achieve that by carefully bending metal from a sodacan over a mold. Until I realised the bottom of a sodacan is already perfectly rounded! Why make it difficult if you can use something that's already there and probably a lot better than what I could have done myself? I printed the dial on a decalsheet and applied it on the metal, sealing it with satinvarnish spray.