On the elegant analog clock, meanwhile, time swells and recedes, like waves and seasons and life. The hands evoke the rotation of the earth, the movements of celestial objects, the cosmos.

We don’t notice this until we look at something that makes a regular movement with which we are utterly familiar. We know what a “second” looks like, and we know when one has been drawn out.

We’ve been seeing a lot of metaclocks lately — a digital clock whose display is formed by the sweeping hands of an array of individual analog clocks. They can look fantastic, and we&#82… ...

This cool digital clock is called ‘A Million Times’ and the 288 analog clocks are powered by 576 electrical motors. Each motor precisely controls the minute and hour hands of the individual ...