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©Miki Eleta
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Miki Eleta

  • Clockmaker
  • Zürich, Switzerland
  • Master Artisan
Miki Eleta Clockmaker
Contact
German, Croatian, Serbian, Spanish
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+41 794587997
©Miki Eleta

Rewarded with joy

  • • Miki is a self-taught clockmaker
  • • He crafts every clock component himself
  • • Each of his creations are unique

Miki Eleta is as much an artist as he is a clockmaker. He was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and moved to Switzerland in 1973, where he discovered his passion for precise mechanics. At the age of 50, he presented a kinetic work at an exhibition and felt the urge to take on a challenge to create an even better piece. He came back the following year with his very first clock. It had instant success, was sold, and this was the beginning of Miki’s life as a clockmaker. Each of his unique creations begins with a rough sketch, and the process is a discovery where each component is designed and crafted by Miki himself. He is not an assembler of clocks, but a creator. Miki is attracted by the inexhaustibly interesting world of watch and clockmaking, where complex mechanical objects need design, aesthetics, and a warm heart.

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Works

  • ©Gian Vaitl
  • ©Miki Eleta
  • ©Gian Vaitl
  • ©Miki Eleta
  • ©Gian Vaitl
Photo: ©Gian Vaitl
BY21Dez12ME

This table clock in the form of a spaceship has an automaton showing a group of aliens exploring the Earth. The gravity tourbillon is specially developed by Miki Eleta and the clock displays retrograde minutes, jumping hours, days of the week, moon phases, and world time.

Photo: ©Miki Eleta
The Passage of Time

This astronomical clock displays retrograde minutes, day and night hours, days of the week, moon phase, date, the constellations and the change of the zodiac signs. In the inner circle, agricultural activities are shown through the course of the year. A skeleton globe rotates above it displaying the world time, represented by 24 meridians.

Photo: ©Gian Vaitl
Svemir (Universe)

Svemir is the first astronomical clock to combine both the geocentric and the heliocentric world views in a one and same clock. Geocentrism places the Earth in the centre, orbited by the sun, the moon and the rest of the planets.

Photo: ©Miki Eleta
Natuhrzeit

This astronomical clock features sunrise and sunset times, a time column, flower display, musical work playing a different tune every hour. The clock is modelled on a subjective perception of time. It contains neither numbers nor letters.

Photo: ©Gian Vaitl
Minute muncher

This table clock is called the Minute muncher as it is an artistic-kinetic construction of the philosophical matter of “Time is a gift to enjoy every minute.” Above a horizontal clock dial, a fantasy animal circles once every hour. Starting at 60, it 'eats away' one minute after the other as the hour passes.

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