Gallery: The Man Who Makes the Coolest Clocks You'll Ever See

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    'By George' Clock FRONT VIEW by © Daniel Weil

    Daniel Weil is a partner at Pentagram, where he designs for a variety of clients. In his own time, the Argentinian designer creates handmade clocks.
  • Each of the clocks has its own name and story. With Clock For an Astronomer reflects the relationship between astronomy...
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    Each of the clocks has its own name and story. With * Clock For an Astronomer* reflects the relationship between astronomy and geography.
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    Noon is facing north.
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    A sketch of the clock. Weil has more a collection of more than 300 black notebooks full of sketches and ideas.
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    'Power Lines' Clock FRONT VIEW by © Daniel Weil

    With *Powerlines*, one of Weil's newer clocks, two long horizontal frames intersect.
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    'Power Lines' Clock DETAIL by © Daniel Weil

    Wires criss-cross in this middle meeting point and transport the current from a batter on one end to the clock’s motor.
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    With *Clock For an Architect* the component used to set the time connects with the central mechanism (which looks like a house) via rubber belts.
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    Detail shot of *Clock For an Architect*.
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    In *Clock For an Acrobat* Weil designed a timepiece that relies on gravity. "As the wheel turns on its track, gravity steers the glass bearing to six o’clock. This prompts the user to reset the dial," writes Pentagram.
  • The battery is balanced in the air by negative and positive power lines which are the energy source for the clock.
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    The battery is balanced in the air by negative and positive power lines, which are the energy source for the clock.
  • Weil's Radio In a Bag was a project for his degree show in the early 1980s. You can see all the components of the clock...
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    Daniel Weil Radio in a Bag © Design Museum

    Weil's *Radio In a Bag* was a project for his degree show in the early 1980s. You can see all the components of the clock, which was a direct reaction to the black, boxed-in aesthetic of radios during the 1970s.
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    Mothercare crop © Daniel Weil copy

    Weil redesigned the baby bottle for Mothercare after extensively researching how parenting and bottles have evolved over the years.
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    Pet-Shop-Boys'Very' © Daniel Weil

    Weil Designed the Pet Shop Boys *Very* album cover from 1993.
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