The Corpus Clock

The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college’s new library building. The piece makes ingenious use of the grasshopper escapement, moving it from the inside of the clock to the outside and refashioning it as a Chronophage, or time-eater, which literally devours time.
The £1 million timepiece, known as The Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honour John Harrison.