The Chronophage

The unique art-object. The clock made as a mooving sculpture, expressing the Chronophage or time-predator, who control every constantly disappearing minute.

The Midsummer Chronophage has been exhibiting in London's Science museum during the hole 2011 and will be exhibited in Saatchi Galery in November.The 1.5 metres clock face is formed from a single sheet of stainless steel, plated in pure gold then polished to a mirror finish. It appears that time is undulating outwards in waves of gold - ripples radiating as if a pebble had dropped into a pond of liquid gold.

The escape wheel teeth move around the edge of the face in small steps, controlled by the movement of the creature’s feet, making a sound like the primitive beat of an animal’s heart.
The massive pendulum bob, like the clock face, is plated with a mirrored surface of gold, with a personal inscription. The pendulum pointer swings above a graticule, sculpted with four oval hollows on either side of
your emblem. Each hollow represents one tenth of a second, so the hollows are narrower towards the ends of the graticule because the pendulum slows and reverses at the limit of each swing. The graticule is plated in gold and in rhodium, the silvery white metal more precious than gold.

Style: design furniture & lightning

The plate: gold (24 karat) and rhodium

Materials: stainless still and enammelled copper;

Electro-mechanical components;

Height: 2,91 m

Width: 1,54 m

Depth: 0,50m

John C Taylor Ltd was set up by Dr John Taylor initially to make a small number of unique Chronophage. Its activities have since been extended to making individual and very high quality replicas of rare and important clocks from clock making history - Masterworks.