At the turn of the year 2012 - 2013 I build the first kinetic machine, which I call "Time Machine".
A pendulum machine, with some gears - and nothing else!
The time measurement I leave to the many talented clockmakers who do this for centuries in extreme precision already.
The first milestone was the TM1, which embodies this conceptual clarity in its purest form.
No hand, no dial creates bustle and stress. The pleasure offered by endlessly flowing time is unclouded.
This machine quickly finds buyers all over the world.
One machine that has almost become a celebrity is the TM1 in the reception of the glamorous Hotel Victoria Jungfrau in Interlaken.
It is delighting thousands of visitors from all over the world since 2014!
At Baselworld 2017, as a guest at the AHCI, we present the large wall machine TM4.
On the photo with my daughter Fiona, who worked in our company for many years.
A bijou in smaller dimensions: The TM3, here in the stand version "Johann", a reminiscence of our ancestor and entrepreneur Johann Melchior Schlumpf.
In 2018, we present the smaller version of a wall machine, the TM5, at Baselworld.
The frame dimensions here are approx. 1.25 x 1.25 meters.
Again and again interesting projects arise, some can be executed, for others it remains a design:
Detski Mir, Moscow (2014). The largest clock we have built so far. This is actually a clock with time indication: length of the minute hand: 3 meters!
The pendulum length is a stately 12 meters. The oscillation period of a pendulum movement is a whopping six seconds - truly a contemplative thing, almost meditative!
View from a height of 23 meters: Fear of heights is not allowed!
In just 90 days we design and build a monumental installation for BaselWorld 2015: In a cube of 4 x 4 x 5 meters are four identical, but not synchronously running time machines! Sitting in the middle of the four mirrored pendulums you forget the time all around!
Today, the machine stands on the roof of our building in Trimmis and serves as an experimental object for extra large components.
TM6: Design for an outdoor machine.
5 meters long, 3 meters high: Planned installation for BaselWorld 2020.
A project for Dubai Watch Week...
Due to the gratifying attention that our novel kinetic machines attract, there is an active travel activity to many even remote destinations. At home, production should continue, ideas are waiting to be realized...
It was a stroke of luck that I found a companion in the person of my brother Andreas, who, together with his partners Ash Murrell and Markus Kramer and their joint Moving Mechanics Company, took over the complex area of marketing, worldwide installation and service.
In addition, a large showroom is being built in the heart of Switzerland, in Baar/Zug, where all the machines can be admired in a wide variety of designs.
Contact: Andreas Schlumpf
Phone: +41 78 613 19 16
www.movingmechanics.com
