“A clock,” you’re saying to yourself, “a clock, but this looks ridiculous?” and at first glance, I’d agree but look a little closer, reader a little further and you’ll see that it’s actually a work of genius.

Dutch born Swedish designer Christiaan Postma has taken apart 150 modern day clocks, pared them down to the parts that make them tick and combined them to created one large, 140cm x 140cm timepiece.

Each clockwork mechanism works together to display the time in words…