"The passage of time"
Man is ephemeral, time is infinite.
Miki Eleta designs and produces his own contemporary timepieces in the tradition of the Swiss Haute horlogerie. Completely handcrafted, each of his complex time piece is a unique work of art produced only one single time.
"The passage of time" features a walking figure, a symbol of modern man, who is always in motion and yet does not reach his ambitions. He has investigated and measured time and space, and yet he remains small in the course of infinity. About every 20 seconds, the figure lifts its left arm and lowers its head to read the time.
In front of the figure, a symbol rotates on a windscreen axis, formed by an X and a S. X stands for Chronos (Greek for time). The letter S forms an 8 due to the rapid rotation, depicting the symbol for infinity.
The clock features a retrograde minute display on the right with a blue background. The hour is shown on the left on a rotating, skeletonized dial. The small sun and moon symbols indicate the day and night hours. The days of the week are displayed through planetary symbols.
The sun symbol shows the position of the sun as it appears seen from the earth over the course of a year. It rises or falls by 1/365 per day due to the rotation of the large disc.
Handcrafted in 10 months, this unique timepiece is made of gold-plated brass, chrome-plated brass, lapis lazuli, mother-of-pearl, blue and red glass. It weighs about 20 kg's and has an 8 day power reserve.
Each new creation of Miki Eleta is driven by his deep fascination for time measurement, innovation and kinetic art. There are no limits for his desire to look for new technical challenges, unique emotional displays as well as fascinating contemporary designs.
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