Arabic Tower Clock

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Arabic Tower Clock - Miki Eleta

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Table Clock (No.42) – Miki Eleta 2024

I enjoy stimulating the viewer’s imagination with my clocks and inspiring them to see things in an unusual way. When observing my surroundings, I love discovering elements that I can set in motion or reinterpret in my mind.

Arabic art, architecture and music have inspired me for a long time. I am fascinated by these towers, which can be admired throughout the Arab world and were used in so many different ways to guard springs, settlements and coastlines.

When I was standing in front of one of these multi-storey, circular tower in the desert, I imagined rotating its interlocking rings with the battlements. That’s how the idea for this clock and its displays came about.

The bottom ring shows the date, the centre ring the minutes and the top ring the hour.

A three-dimensional representation of the moon phase, made of lapis lazuli and rock crystal, is visible through the circular opening in the topmost part of the tower. The sun rises above the tower early in the morning and disappears behind it in the evening.

The movement is made of gold-plated brass and steel, the case of gold-plated aluminium.

Power reserve: 7 days