Chronomeans is the finest rolling ball clock

[@ygma]

this is the most elegant ad I have ever seen.

[@cortado174]

I agree with that there is no perfection in this world, but this piece outstands.

[@dffabryr]

What a wonderful work, amazing!!!

[@stuart6478]

it's a rolling ball clock, it doesn't need a poem to describe it's purpose

[@MrMriggy11]

One day I'll have that amazing piece in my extravagant office hahaha

[@AlexMerlin1985]

no, you won't... haha :)

[@StephenBell]

I want to hear the clock - not music

[@john34261]

the mechanical noise it produces is music enough i agree it would also sound so much better

I agree. So annoying.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pm]

I think we may all be grateful that the music was not offensive as sadly is so often the case in so many situations. The clock is beautiful, and needs no music to enhance its beauty, never the less I am glad the video was not ruined by an awful noise which one was desperate to silence.

[@RidderRudolf]

I saw this type of clock as a child in Amsterdam in the late 1940s.

[@TakTakSub]

Price = $9,500 But it's limited edition (only 99 were sold), it might be higher than that now.

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

Hmm, not as bad as I thought. Waaaaaaay more than I would pay for something like that, but I was expecting it to cost at least double that. When it said Rhodium plated I was like "ohh, that just got more expensive" lol. If I was going to shell out $10k on something so useless and noisy, I'd rather get one of those nice marble runs I keep seeing on KZbin. The really expensive looking ones you have to commission, I don't remember the name...

[@LordCaledonFraszer]

This looks a little something like the stuff you find in Hammacher Schlemmer or Nieman Marcus catalogs; exquisite, highly complex devices that aren't terribly useful but still cost as much as some brand new cars.

[@carni1233]

That is really so cool I've often wondered if someone was going to make a clock out of one I want that so bad I'm so glad I got to see that that is just awesome!!!

[@captainTubes]

1:33 - 1:43 you can see there is a piece of dust on it towards the left side.

[@MrGoldarr]

Nice Clock. Very sophisticated. I’m poor by the way, but I can still admire it’s beauty.

[@iedi3]

It doesn’t matter that you’re poor

[@felixjordan6346]

Very brilliant piece. how much can i pay to have it?

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

Take every last single doll hair that I have.

[@DannySullivanMusic]

It would be cool to see the transition from 12:59 to 1:00, I think.

[@b1121]

Starting at 0:09

[@jaromirstechr3407]

12:59 continues 00:00 ?

[@Harrdik_1107]

Excellent engineering.

[@cajetandabre4489]

Devine creation

[@myfastcars]

Jay Please answer the following questions. How much would it cost to get one? How long does it take to build. What actually powers it? Battery or wall power? What does it sound like when it is operating? Its an amazing piece of work! WOW!

[@aungaung-om5bx]

u cant effort since you asked that much question.

[@solorzanochris665]

Dude i saw this high asf not knowing a single clue as to what this is. All i know is this would look cool asf while shroomed out of my mind

[@StefanReich]

@World Python How can you guys still write KZbin comments :-D

[@petesabout]

​@@StefanReich copy & paste. He can't read nor write anymore.

[@3DKiwi]

Beautiful. For anyone wanting one you can make a rolling ball clock using the same principle in Lego.

[@drz4073]

Wow, that's some fine engineering... But I think I'll buy the app version if there is one...

[@TallBoyGareth]

I’d honestly take a cheep stainless steel clock version 👌🏻 after all these years, why hasn’t anyone made a cheep one yet? for anyone interested, the company that invented the original clock (Idle Tyme) they still make the wooden clocks today!

[@GarethWalton2]

I’d buy one also! 😉

[@gladyslustgirdle3004]

I will, and have, appreciated this piece of engineering greatly on video. I am in a rather impecunious position at the moment.

[@buzzardsmith3676]

It's about $72000 HKD or $9000 USD

[@n0van0va]

despite the nice music.. the clock is actually noisy, you don't want that in your living room

[@AwesomeKazuaki]

Dear Santa. I want this💕

[@t-wrecks7481]

Only $10,000 each. I think I'll pick up one for each room of the house.

[@scmitra]

Its rolling ball but not Congreve. Need some info: is it 8 days? Is it fusee chain driven? What isnit called? Chronomeans?

[@chriswinkler284]

Limited edition...Meaning, all the more expensive :P

[@jasmijnariel]

Like 100k

[@hasangradisic6992]

VRLO ZANIMLJIVO.

[@dadbuffins4524]

Amazing..I'd love to spend money on this

[@YS-tv4yv]

All for the low price of $7,000!

[@Gorbatsjov27]

If I had too much money, this would exactly be where I would spend it on.

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

The clock is fascinating, but I found the music so annoying that I couldn't watch all the video. Could we not hear just the clock, without the background music? Maybe you could do another video like that, with only the sound of that beautiful clock.

[@simondrew2914]

I once owned something similar that was made of plastic and worked on the same principle. As a novelty toy it was fine, but of course its noisiness made it impractical. Remember, every midnight, all of the ball bearings will be clattering back to their starting positions!

[@DSBenny]

True, but setting the correct time has never been so easy :)

[@DSBenny]

@· what are you talking about. You count the balls to know the time. Its explained in the video. Take on ball and place it somewhere else, tada... the time is changed. No kinetic energy here mate, its motorized.

[@saturnpss]

Fantastic 😍

[@Kwazioo]

Whats the price of these beauty ? q

[@chondominguez6995]

Wow. Just wow.

[@Nicolas-wd5ec]

Wonder if they'd consider making it a binary clock? I feel it would fit the theme better.

[@alfonsorodriguez8906]

dónde se puede comprar .y que precio tiene

[@ChrisParayno]

Take my money!

[@pepejeffdamn]

Anyone knows how much they cost?

[@nelsonferrer8994]

$7,000

[@philipmarson5582]

Beautiful - but I bet it's a bu**er to clean

[@JasonWaltonDriveAlong]

That is one awesome binary clock. Just wish I could afford one.

[@fartwrangler]

It's not binary, it's duodecimal, just like any regular clock. I don't know what this one costs, but you can get a plastic one that uses exactly the same principles for $20-$40 in geek shops. There are videos of such, elsewhere on youtube.

[@michaelibrahim1456]

Hey Jay , what an amazing sculpture. Is it for sale ?

[@TryptychUK]

Yes, if you have 9255 € to spare.

[@brianredmond4919]

How is it powered?.

[@RegebroRepairs]

But apparently it sounds like awful noise, since we don't get to hear it.

[@rogercrier]

Magnetic induction drive from a motor underneath? I will have to wait until the Chinese knock offs start arriving before I buy one,or reverse engineer this video! Anyone seen detailed info anywhere?

[@barbudania]

Don't forget to get back to us if you find the chinese knock off!

[@Zubayer_Islam_Rezoan]

Did you find a chinese knock off?

[@v.e.7236]

Does it come programmed w/ that annoying music constantly piping through? Kudos to the designer, as this is a beautiful piece of kinetic art. Just a bit Rube Goldberg-esque, IMO.

[@krzyche86]

How much it cost?

[@magnussorensen2565]

If you ask, then you can't afford it.

[@TryptychUK]

9255 €

[@gabrieledaniele429]

Stupendo

[@tiapelucas]

bueno creo q necesito este reloj

[@YADUKAAGROTECH-t3w]

Sir kitna price hai

[@iberetanaruribeiros924]

lindo

[@enoslopes]

maravilhoso

[@JorgeRodriguez-bc2jr]

How do you clean it?

[@catzkeet4860]

YOU don’t....when you drop almost 9,000 on a clock, you have “staff” for that

[@jimstanley_49]

Very carefully.

[@larryscott3982]

What would have been impressive is, if the balls ramps and mechanisms actually regulated the clock drive. It appears to have an electric motor, which does the time keeping. I was hoping to see a gravity clock, completely analog not a quartz regulated electric motor.

[@millomweb]

Ball clocks are pretty inherently digital.

[@larryscott3982]

pmailkeey Ball driven clocks are mechanical analog time keeping. The reading of the time may be digital, but the rate of spring driven or gravity clock with balls performing the escape are classic.

[@millomweb]

@@larryscott3982 Don't see many where the balls regulate the clock though ! mostly driven by fixed speed clocks !

[@larryscott3982]

pmailkeey I know, there aren’t many. And that’s why I was disappointed that his example didn’t have a gravity ball driven escape. Like this: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ferris-wheel-falling-ball-gravity-453876049

[@michaelgeorgia7063]

I wonder what it costs ?

[@gregkheysin6004]

$9,5000.00

[@cuchulainn70]

On sale! www.touchofmodern.com/sales/chronomeans-7bcf3f78-af52-4319-983f-d002cd4d17f9/chronomeans-shahrazad

[@ctchrisf]

9,500... your extra 0 confused me, heh.

[@Nutzac]

Wow

[@jbi1839]

Why is the view so low?

[@consubandon]

"finest"?!? Wow, $10,000 for an executive desk toy! No extra charge for the pompous labeling all over it. I'm an engineer. I also repair old clocks. I'm not impressed. This is not engineering; this is gadgetry/novelty/toy-making.

[@petesabout]

You're such a dick! Do let us all know when you've made one.

[@consubandon]

@@petesabout I know, I am. I really am. In fact, I submitted something contrived and elaborate once at art school when I was studying Industrial Design, a sort of a clockwork mechanism, and the professors tore into it, immediately, calling it for what it was. Yes, I am a dick. But I come by my misanthropy honestly and through hard work and great practice at identifying the superficial and worthless. At least the Wintergaten marble machine has soul. And it plays tunes. And even THAT guy has since come to understand it's contrived and a conceit and it was ducking the full scrutiny of function and logic, no matter how much whimsy he piled into it. Tell ya what: When I'm not rebuilding nuclear submarine propulsion plants, maybe I'll add one of these to my to-do list. Cheers.

[@petesabout]

@@consubandon Well it appears that you can do absolutely everything except comprehend why something costs what it does. Perhaps you should goto Porsche and ask them to explain why their cars are £80k when Nissan build one for £15k. Put the world at rest for all of us why don't you.

[@consubandon]

@@petesabout Peter... The reason Porsche's cars (nice cars, by the way) sell for £80k is *that is what buyers will pay for them* . Nothing else. The company would be imbeciles if, that being true, they sold the cars for less money, all else being equal (ceteris parabus). The selling price of a thing has only to do with what the buyer will pay. I'll admit I've had a peculiar career, but I ran the trading floor display systems for the mercantile exchange that set the prices for crude oil, energy futures, precious metals, aluminum, and copper on the New York market. The traders stood around in groups on the trading floor, representing buyers and sellers out in the corporate and industrial worlds. When someone had a few lots of crude oil to sell, he called out the number of barrels and his offering price. If nobody immediately accepted his offer, would-be buyers would then compete by calling out bids for his oil. When he felt he had received a bid sufficiently high, he would announce "sold" and the mercantile exchange would record the transaction. At that instant, and ONLY at that instant, the price of crude oil for that month was known to be $XX.XX. That changed the next time a sale happened. And again, the time after that. That system is called "open outcry" and it ensures transparency. A seller cannot accept any bid that is not the highest, and a buyer cannot accept any offer that is not the lowest. That's the rules. Throughout the Western world, prices work, effectively, the same way, even in the shops. Not that we haggle each day as if we were at a Middle Eastern bazaar, but a chocolate bar in Brooklyn costs $1.25 near me. But when I go to Manhattan, that same, lousy chocolate bar can be seen tagged at $2.50. How can this be??? It is because sellers in Manhattan have determined they can offer for $2.50 the same snack we buy across the East River for $1.25., *and people pay it* , so that's the price. IN MANHATTAN. And only at that instant, until the price changes. In Brooklyn that is not the price. The same goes for liquor, for example. You have to give up this absurd fantasy that a Porsche or a clock has £XXk value. Nothing "has" value measured in cash, except at the instant somebody agrees, "Yeah, I'll take your offer. Here's the money." An asking price is just the dream of a seller. It's not value. And the dreams of sellers are written on price tags. Porsche's cars may be better-engineered than Nissan's, but that fact has only a glancing relationship to what buyers are willing to pay. It's not the story, it's more of a footnote to the story. Why do people buy Macs instead of PCs? Typically, it's because other people with whom they associate also use Macs. That's the reason. Why do people pay $85 for a bottle of wine in a restaurant that my liquor store (yes, I did that, too) sold for $17? Because they were having a nice evening and considered the bottle to be special as they sat at their table. Their momentary state of mind supported the decision to buy it. Perhaps an introductory course in microeconomics would be a good place to start a reevaluation of your perspective. Best.

[@i_was_alive]

美しいーーー

[@bobshiruncle7746]

"The purpose of this clock is not to inform current time to the user" What the fuck is the purpose of a clock then?....

[@lazycat2169]

ı want this

[@Justmyopinionlol]

Dear Chinese People, Please make one to better quality than the clock in this video for $20, also add a tourbillon too.

[@jasonkluge755]

I am willing to spend even $200 on a Chinese clock with a similar design. Indeed even $400 isn't too expensive for a clock like this! Do you really want a plastic $20 clock that falls apart on the first day of arrival?

[@Zukunftswerkstadt]

72.000$

[@copperboltwire320]

Looks awesome, but i wouldn't want it in the bedroom! so noisy!

[@stephenlackey5852]

If you’re interested... $7000.00

[@HanZie82]

Nice concept, wonderful materials. But damn does this look ugly. I'd rather have that black plastic model you could see at almost all watch makers shops in the early 90's.

[@godspeedjourneys2661]

China, if you are listening, I'd like you to hack this design and provide us all the opportunity, who are missing the funds, to buy the original. Thank you.

[@YTRORTY]

Wtf is this music

[@jasmijnariel]

Toooo slow and toooo fast in one. No i dont like that. The concept is great but like this a minute takes aaages

[@rsurmonte]

This "clock" is almost 8 grand. And it doesn't tell time. I'm lost..

[@ultimateavetar]

rsurmonte it does. From the bottom up, counting the balls.

[@catzkeet4860]

Seriously??? The video even TELLS you how to read the damn thing.....SEVERAL times.......

[@roqayyahabidey932]

Useless... Time wasting

[@abdul123r]

Roqayyah Abidey a device that tells the time is useless?..

[@roqayyahabidey932]

megamind101 , brother who have time to appreciate these types of video are curd of brain yoghurt of brain yoghurt curd of brain 😂😂😂

[@catzkeet4860]

Roqayyah Abidey says the person who evidently just watched it

[@damien819]

serves as a good conversation starter. completely useless for anything else

[@thejadedjester4935]

I mean, it also serves as a way to know the time, so your statement is false.