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As I finished modeling these two clocks, I realized that I think too much about time.
Copal 707 and Copal 801 vintage clocks.
Hard surface + direct modeling in Blender, post in Photoshop.
I have had this Copal 707 clock for ages.
It’s been broken for years, and spare parts can’t be found, or are too expensive.
And when it worked, with its electric buzzing, it would lose or gain about ten minutes a day.
The model 801, the big one, beautiful, I never owned, and I have only seen in a bank office, where it had been hanging on the wall for years, that too broken.
On ebay it can be found for an exorbitant amount.
As a child, when mine was still working, I used to stare at its paddles at any hours, waiting eagerly for them to turn over; if I seized the exact moment, I was certain that, sooner or later, some particularly beautiful configuration of numbers and colours would surprise me.
We probably dress the measurement of time in pleasant clothes and colours to distract ourselves from the knowledge that time does not exist except in memory.
It’s always getting late.
