Antique skull watch tells time with eye-socket snakes

Watchismo has a feature on another haunted timepiece: an animated 17th century clock that gives the Pirates of the Caribbean a run for its money, telling the time by means of gruesome rictus and snakes darting in and out of its hollow eye-sockets.

During the first minute, the skull's expression seems to smile, the second minute it seems to laugh, the next appears to scream and finally, the jaws snap shut, as if the skull were trying to bite something. At the same time, one of the snakes slowly sinks back down into one of the eye sockets, while the other slowly comes out of the other eye, before retracting suddenly, as the first snake again springs out from its eye-socket. And to view the time, just open up the skull cap! It sold recently for $135,000.

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See also: Skull-watch of Mary Queen of Scots

[#1 posted by Yamara , October 26, 2007 12:26 PM]

Wow. You think our times are the most creative wild and decadent, and that our supermedia can put our ancestors all to shame, even in their own centuries.

And then stuff like this surfaces.

Humans are cool.

[#2 posted by wiredfu , October 26, 2007 2:36 PM]

Looks like a C3PO zombie...