TM 12
Time has come to build a small machine which, with its compact frame dimensions of 40 x 40 cm, can be placed on any sideboard or wall: the TM12.
Sophisticated technology is combined with aesthetic beauty: three rings display the minute, hour and day of the week.
The very special feature is the pendulum. Inspired by a monumental installation that I was able to create 11 years ago, and which still exerts a great fascination with its 12 meter long pendulum (one pendulum swing lasts six seconds!), I have also breathed a pendulum into this clock, which swings leisurely at a similar, almost meditative frequency!
Another special feature is the drive: an almost forgotten motor principle consisting of just 6 rotating magnets, which is set in rotation by the 50 Hertz of our power grid, drives the movement with high precision. No electronics, no battery required: just plug it in and the clock runs precisely and silently and, thanks to the long-lasting principle that does not require complex components, practically wear-free.
The TM12 is available in the following finishes:
-> black - gold
-> black - silver
-> colorful
Prices:
-> for Switzerland: CHF 3,300 incl. 8.1% VAT and shipping
-> for Europe: € 3,990 incl. 20% VAT and shipping
-> Overseas: CHF 3,000 ex works
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It all began...
... long time ago with the idea of creating a purist pendulum machine, with a few gears, a pendulum - and nothing else!
I leave the measurement of time to the many talented clockmakers who have been doing this with the utmost precision for centuries.
After all, time is far more than just the position of two hands, far more than measured time, which nowadays drives us from morning to night rather than inviting us to contemplative enjoyment!
The first milestone was the TM1, which embodies this conceptual clarity in its purest form.
No hand, no dial creates bustle and stress. The pleasure offered by endlessly flowing time is unclouded.
This machine quickly finds buyers all over the world.
One machine that has almost become a celebrity is the TM1 in the reception of the glamorous Hotel Victoria Jungfrau in Interlaken.
It is delighting thousands of visitors from all over the world since 2014!
At Baselworld 2017, as a guest at the AHCI, we present the large wall machine TM4.
On the photo with my daughter Fiona, who worked in our company for many years.
A bijou in smaller dimensions: The TM3, here in the stand version "Johann", a reminiscence of our ancestor and entrepreneur Johann Melchior Schlumpf.
In 2018, we present the smaller version of a wall machine, the TM5, at Baselworld.
The frame dimensions here are approx. 1.25 x 1.25 meters.
Again and again interesting projects arise, some can be executed, for others it remains a design:
Detski Mir (2014). The largest clock we have built so far. Length of the minute hand: 3 meters!
The pendulum length is a stately 12 meters. The oscillation period of a pendulum movement is a whopping six seconds - truly a contemplative thing, almost meditative!
View from a height of 23 meters: Fear of heights is not allowed!
In just 90 days we design and build a monumental installation for BaselWorld 2015: In a cube of 4 x 4 x 5 meters are four identical, but not synchronously running time machines! Sitting in the middle of the four mirrored pendulums you forget the time all around!
Today, the machine stands on the roof of our building in Trimmis and serves as an experimental object for extra large components.
TM6 "Rainman": Design for an outdoor machine.
5 meters long, 3 meters high: Planned installation for BaselWorld 2020.
A project for Dubai Watch Week...
Due to the gratifying attention that our novel kinetic machines attract, there is an active travel activity to many even remote destinations. At home, production should continue, ideas are waiting to be realized...
It was a stroke of luck that I found a companion in the person of my brother Andreas, who, together with his partners Ash Murrell and Markus Kramer and their joint Moving Mechanics Company, took over the complex area of marketing, worldwide installation and service.
In addition, a large showroom is being built in the heart of Switzerland, in Baar/Zug, where all the machines can be admired in a wide variety of designs.
Contact: Andreas Schlumpf
Phone: +41 78 613 19 16
www.movingmechanics.com
