Astro-skeleton, The finished overview video @MarkFrankclocks
Astro-skeleton, The finished overview video  @MarkFrankclocks
Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The project is complete, finished and polished. It has undergone all debugging and is now ready for partial disassembly and packing to its final destination. What you see here is twelve years of a master clockmaker's work. Buchanan is, in my opinion the finest living clockmaker in the world. This machine was completely hand-built by one man. There was collaboration on design, artwork, enamel dialing, case work and technical consultations, but the entire mechanicals were the work of Buchanan.

Congratulations, it has been one wild adventure, to have made this project with you, while halfway around the world and only twice seeing it during the years that it has been in your shop. I have been blessed to have met the only man who could and did build my dream without compromise and to have had the resources to make it come true. Not many men can make that statement.

You can see this and other videos and detailed photos of the machine here: my-time-machines.net/astro_10-21.htm .
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Astro-skeleton, The finished overview video

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