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You're such a dick! Do let us all know when you've made one.

@@petesabout I know, I am. I really am. In fact, I submitted something contrived and elaborate once at art school when I was studying Industrial Design, a sort of a clockwork mechanism, and the professors tore into it, immediately, calling it for what it was. Yes, I am a dick. But I come by my misanthropy honestly and through hard work and great practice at identifying the superficial and worthless. At least the Wintergaten marble machine has soul. And it plays tunes. And even THAT guy has since come to understand it's contrived and a conceit and it was ducking the full scrutiny of function and logic, no matter how much whimsy he piled into it. Tell ya what: When I'm not rebuilding nuclear submarine propulsion plants, maybe I'll add one of these to my to-do list. Cheers.

@@consubandon Well it appears that you can do absolutely everything except comprehend why something costs what it does. Perhaps you should goto Porsche and ask them to explain why their cars are £80k when Nissan build one for £15k. Put the world at rest for all of us why don't you.

@@petesabout Peter... The reason Porsche's cars (nice cars, by the way) sell for £80k is *that is what buyers will pay for them* . Nothing else. The company would be imbeciles if, that being true, they sold the cars for less money, all else being equal (ceteris parabus). The selling price of a thing has only to do with what the buyer will pay. I'll admit I've had a peculiar career, but I ran the trading floor display systems for the mercantile exchange that set the prices for crude oil, energy futures, precious metals, aluminum, and copper on the New York market. The traders stood around in groups on the trading floor, representing buyers and sellers out in the corporate and industrial worlds. When someone had a few lots of crude oil to sell, he called out the number of barrels and his offering price. If nobody immediately accepted his offer, would-be buyers would then compete by calling out bids for his oil. When he felt he had received a bid sufficiently high, he would announce "sold" and the mercantile exchange would record the transaction. At that instant, and ONLY at that instant, the price of crude oil for that month was known to be $XX.XX. That changed the next time a sale happened. And again, the time after that. That system is called "open outcry" and it ensures transparency. A seller cannot accept any bid that is not the highest, and a buyer cannot accept any offer that is not the lowest. That's the rules. Throughout the Western world, prices work, effectively, the same way, even in the shops. Not that we haggle each day as if we were at a Middle Eastern bazaar, but a chocolate bar in Brooklyn costs $1.25 near me. But when I go to Manhattan, that same, lousy chocolate bar can be seen tagged at $2.50. How can this be??? It is because sellers in Manhattan have determined they can offer for $2.50 the same snack we buy across the East River for $1.25., *and people pay it* , so that's the price. IN MANHATTAN. And only at that instant, until the price changes. In Brooklyn that is not the price. The same goes for liquor, for example. You have to give up this absurd fantasy that a Porsche or a clock has £XXk value. Nothing "has" value measured in cash, except at the instant somebody agrees, "Yeah, I'll take your offer. Here's the money." An asking price is just the dream of a seller. It's not value. And the dreams of sellers are written on price tags. Porsche's cars may be better-engineered than Nissan's, but that fact has only a glancing relationship to what buyers are willing to pay. It's not the story, it's more of a footnote to the story. Why do people buy Macs instead of PCs? Typically, it's because other people with whom they associate also use Macs. That's the reason. Why do people pay $85 for a bottle of wine in a restaurant that my liquor store (yes, I did that, too) sold for $17? Because they were having a nice evening and considered the bottle to be special as they sat at their table. Their momentary state of mind supported the decision to buy it. Perhaps an introductory course in microeconomics would be a good place to start a reevaluation of your perspective. Best.

I’d buy one also! 😉

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u cant effort since you asked that much question.

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That would require perpetual motion, which is impossible. It still requires energy against gravity to lift the balls.

@@TryptychUK That's right. Clocks have required electricity for hundreds of years to overcome gravity. /s

@@jimstanley_49 Idiot. They still need a spring winding up, or weights lifted. You don't get energy for nothing.

@@TryptychUK did you not read the end of my post? Since I don't like to assume the mental capacity of people I find on the internet without at least a second message, I'll assume you are merely ignorant of the use of "/s" as an attempt to convey sarcasm.

@@jimstanley_49 Fair enough. I didn't see that. And what most people fail to understand is gravity is an incredibly weak force.

the mechanical noise it produces is music enough i agree it would also sound so much better

I think we may all be grateful that the music was not offensive as sadly is so often the case in so many situations. The clock is beautiful, and needs no music to enhance its beauty, never the less I am glad the video was not ruined by an awful noise which one was desperate to silence.

Ball clocks are pretty inherently digital.

pmailkeey Ball driven clocks are mechanical analog time keeping. The reading of the time may be digital, but the rate of spring driven or gravity clock with balls performing the escape are classic.

@@larryscott3982 Don't see many where the balls regulate the clock though ! mostly driven by fixed speed clocks !

pmailkeey I know, there aren’t many. And that’s why I was disappointed that his example didn’t have a gravity ball driven escape. Like this: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ferris-wheel-falling-ball-gravity-453876049

@World Python How can you guys still write CZcams comments :-D

​@@StefanReich copy & paste. He can't read nor write anymore.