Mr. Engineer Clock

This handcrafted mechanical clock is made from a watchman’s clock mechanism and housing circa 1918, antique 19th century British Fusee clock movement, antique hand tools, and an antique jeweler’s hammer. The clock winds and sets using the knob on top and will run for about six days on a winding. The antique jewelers hammer circles the clock every 12 hours.

As a child, San Francisco Bay Area artist Stephen Kowalski loved to take took his toys apart to see how they worked; oftentimes reassembling them into something completely different. As an award-winning graphic designer and industrial designer, Kowalski had the opportunity to create items both big and small—from the huge scoreboard clock at San Francisco Giants’ Oracle Park, to smaller useful items of imagination. Today, he works with antique and vintage mechanical, aircraft, nautical, and other decorative parts to create extraordinary clocks, lamps, and furniture. Each item is expertly crafted by hand so no two pieces are the same. As much as possible, vintage screws, nuts, and other hardware are used in assembly as an homage to a bygone era of creative wonder.