Above is Jaquet Droz's La Machine à Ecrire le Temps, a machine that
has taken over ten years to build, and has thousands of moving parts.
For those of you who speak French, you already know what it does. For
everybody else, the machine does one thing, and one thing only: writes
the time.
That's it. When activated, the piece writes the time in hours and
minutes, and then spits it out for you. And how much would you expect
to pay for this marvel of technology?
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