What's the name of the clock at Cambridge University?

Time devourer, also known as time eater, is a kind of clock. This clock was officially unveiled at Cobos Clichy College, Cambridge University, UK on September 19, 2008. The famous physicist Stephen Hawking attended the unveiling ceremony. Known as the "weirdest clock", this clock is not timed by hands or numbers, but is "swallowed" by an ugly mechanical insect for minutes. Designers call it a "time eater" to remind people that time is fleeting and time is no longer there.

There is a very lifelike giant grasshopper on the all-gold-plated disc timer representing a clock with a diameter of 1.2 meters. Grasshoppers kept crawling along the 60 gears on the periphery of the clock, as if they were carving the clock and devouring time.

The realization of time devourer

Time Devourer took Taylor five years to complete, and it cost 6.5438+0.0000 pounds before and after. The 200 workers involved in the production include engineers, sculptors, scientists, calligraphers and calligraphers. The design engineer of the clock is Stewart Huxley, the insect model is made by the sculptor Matthew Sanderson, and the scale is created by Alan Meeks of Visitech Design.