abstract:A skeleton clock is any clock or wristwatch, though typically mechanical in nature, in which the parts that usually conceal the inner workings of the mechanism have been removed or significantly modified so as to display these inner parts.
Highlights include a 19th-century mantel clock that shows a magician who moves a cup to reveal various hidden objects and a Victorian brass skeletonclock built to look like Westminster Abbey.
Seen in motion, this is at once a powerful skeletonclock and a curious astronomical one, a gift to anyone for whom a modern clock can do so much more than just tell the time.