Pastel Purple Pendulum Power

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Mainly an experiment in printing involute gears. They came out so well I have designed a frame etc. for a wall mounted weight driven Pendulum clock. I had bought some pastel purple ABS filament which I loathe and felt I needed to use it up doing SOMETHING. I've reached an artistic brick wall. I have a couple of "chapter rings" which is a tradition for this type of regulator clock, but a normal face with two clock hands is too boring and I need something more interesting. Should the clock run backwards? or have a twenty four hour dial? I thought about tides or maybe a face with times of the day eg. eat sleep work (nap) etc.. Possibly the hands stay still and the face rotates? Maybe there is someone in the Thinigiverse with a design idea. The clock itself ticks nicely and runs with only about 700g driving force. The pendulum rod is a carbon fibre rod and the pivots (axles) are also carbon fibre and run in a simple cone shaped hole in the frame. The result is quite low friction, and the wheels spin freely. the anchor escapement is designed following instructions in Gazeley's book on clock restoring. It took a bit of experimenting to get this bit right. The spring for the pendulum is half a razor blade cemented into the printed support. This is tried and tested by many others and works fine. Clock making requires a lot of patience and is very fiddly, You have to print the bits separately! But it's quite cool to make a clock. A killer idea for the clock face would be very welcome!