The Frog Queen Table Clock – Miki Eleta 2026

A garden is an oasis of calm, offering peace and enriching us with impressions and experiences. We encounter plants and animals and find inspiration in observing them.

The water in ponds appears still, yet is teeming with life. Fish, water snakes, frogs or tadpoles can be spotted.

On the ‘The Frog Queen’ table clock, the time is indicated by various changes: every hour, a frog appears. The Frog Queen, hidden within a flower, reveals herself every twelve hours.

A crane lurks in the pond. Once every twelve hours, it pecks at the frogs. The flower immediately closes protectively around the Queen. The frogs hide beneath their lotus leaves.

On the hand-skeletted dial, richly decorated with snakes, flowers and tadpoles, a snake indicates the minutes. Each minute is represented by a tadpole.

The clock features many motifs from the Asian region. For instance, the number 8 is hidden throughout.

The days of the week on the hand-engraved ring are represented by symbols for the sun, moon and the five elements: Moon (Monday), Fire (Tuesday), Water (Wednesday), Wood (Thursday), Metal (Friday), Earth (Saturday) and Sun (Sunday).

A mechanical automaton enhances the experience in the garden: fish and swans swim past on the outer ring, and water splashes from the upper pond onto the lower level. The automaton is wound by hand and runs for 15 minutes.

All parts of the clock and all the animals and plants (except for the glass figures) were handcrafted by Miki Eleta.

The clock is hand-wound. The power reserve is one week.

Materials
Brass and steel (gold-plated), glass, copper (flower), jade (lotus leaves and frogs), other gemstones such as lapis lazuli, turquoise and dalmatian stone, as well as coral (remaining frogs), cold enamel paint

Dimensions: Diameter 380 mm, height 200 mm