Time is Ticking

Time

In about eighty years the only thing that's left, is the timepiece. Somehow it's funny that, precisely what time indicates, is not itself burdened by the consequences of the passage of time.

Proces

People get old visibly: we get wrinkles, walk crooked, eventually, perhaps not at all. The Time is Ticking goes through the same process. Atelier van Asseldonk investigated how many woodworms it would take to make the wooden housing of the clock disappear to the last fiber in about eighty years. Exactly the duration of an average human life.

Perish

When the case has perished and the timepiece lands on the gold leaf base, it will continue to work and outlive us all.