Check out Klockwerks for interesting and unusual time pieces like this. His gallery of assemblages remind me of the satellite-bound box maker in William Gibson's Count Zero.

I wonder if any of the clocks run backwards? One day, after a power outage, my wall clock started running backwards. I was going to fix it and then thought what the heck? Eventually I got used to it. Nine o'clock is three, six thirty is five thirty, and so on. Not as impressive as talking backwards or singing backwards but mind altering all the same.

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