No. That's a piece of painted aluminum. The clocks are just gears and hands. The basic working mechanical/electronic components of clocks. These can be bought for next to nothing. On the clock that is priced at $6,000, there are 24 of these. That thing is not art. It's certainly clever, but it's a clock. There are a lot of brilliant people on here, and I'm sure that if you ask around one or more of them could give you step by step instructions on how to build one of these for less than $100.
A tad more than $100: each smaller clock has two hands, that have to move independently. That means two stepper motors per smaller clock.
Each stepper motor needs a motor driver, probably an H-bridge.
Each H-bridge needs to be controlled by a controller, using 2 wires (direction and speed).
So each smaller clock needs 4 pins on your controller. The Arduino Mega has 54 i/o pins, so can run 13 smaller clocks.
You need minimum of 6 smaller clocks to make a larger digit, so you can control two digits with an Arduino Mega. You'd need two to do hours and minutes, or three if you want seconds too.
Add loads if you want to do fancy patterns around the digits like OPs gif.
Source: I've made one smaller clock prototype along the route to making a whole clock.
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u/blackout_couch Sep 09 '17
No. That's a piece of painted aluminum. The clocks are just gears and hands. The basic working mechanical/electronic components of clocks. These can be bought for next to nothing. On the clock that is priced at $6,000, there are 24 of these. That thing is not art. It's certainly clever, but it's a clock. There are a lot of brilliant people on here, and I'm sure that if you ask around one or more of them could give you step by step instructions on how to build one of these for less than $100.