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The retrograde minute hand is moved by a snail. The hour dial jumps forward by 1/24 every hour, while a pin on the hour dial switches the weekday disc by 1/7 every day.

The weekday drive moves the lunar phase gear once a day. The gear carries the lunar hemisphere. The hemisphere displays the moon’s position three-dimensionally.

A hemispherical cover represents the night on the glass globe. The globe moves by jumping 1/24 per hour. The current time of 12 world cities can be read on the numbered discs underneath.

The Gravitytourbillon, which is new in this form, is an intermediate winding mechanism that is lifted by the entire drive mechanism and then falls freely downwards. Constant forces operate in the process.

The landing place consists of an automaton with its own spring winding mechanism. Its surface is gold-plated and chrome-plated. Additional to the many complications of the clock, the entire lower part (newly created) is composed of 10 little green men, each having another task and each moved by the some mechanisme.

The glass figures were mouth-blown by Guido Stadelmann, Zurich.