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09/10/2008: gf laser and the corpus clock

One of the world’s most unusual clocks that was manufactured with the help of gf laser was recently unveiled by Professor Stephen Hawking. Dubbed the strangest clock in the world, it features a giant grasshopper and has a series of slits cut into its face which light up to show the time.

Designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College, Oxford, the clock is sited on the exterior of the new library building. It features a unique design which necessitated the collaboration of a number of different specialist engineering firms. The face was laser cut using gf laser's Trumpf TLC Cut 5 3D laser cutting machine.

The large size and unusual shape of the clock face required gf laser to manufacture a special fixture to facilitate the laser cutting process. It is one of gf laser's most unique and challenging products to date. You can read more about our involvement in creating the clock here (PDF, 723k).