Pendul Wall Clock by RL from germany

"There is no suspense in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, managed to perfectly describe what anticipation is about in this one sentence.

It is the built up, the wait, the imagination of what is going to happen that built up the anticipation until it unloads in a very brief moment when something finally happens.

I wanted to translate this built up into an object and tried to think of my very first experience with anticipation that I had, and I had to remember these christmas nights. I sat there and waited for the day to finally come to the point where Santa Claus would bring ours gifts. I observed the clock, unable to do anything else but pace around the house in anticipation.

At some points, I looked at the clock multiple times per minute, but the times would not change any faster, as hard as my anticipation raced against it.

I translated these thoughts into the wall clock PENDUL, which is an abbreviation of the word pendulum.

Pendulum clocks where the most precise clocks for centuries, altering the perception of time forever.

PENDUL has a pendulum that holds a thin polarized film that swings in front of the actual clock face. The time is unreadable unless the pendulum swings by and the polarized film reveals the actual time on the clock face.

This is achieved by removing the polarized film that usually sits on top of a LCD screen and putting it onto the pendulum. The clock creates an anticipation to read the actual time, only revealing it very briefly, like a flickr, thus forcing you to either watch it continuously or multiple times.

The pendulum is made out of brass as a reminiscence of the material, mostly used for wall clock parts in the old days. The body is made out of rough black plastic, a material found in the widespread digital watches. Inside the housing is a simple b/w LCD screen for the clock face and a small motor to move the light-weight pendulum.

Being slightly dysfunctional, the wall clock invites you to reflect the passing of time and anticipation.