Zenit – Julius Zieger, August Bach

The object consists of two parts. The upper part is a cylinder filled with oil, in which a dragonfly - a small air bubble - floats. A twelve-hour dial was lasered onto the lid of the cylinder and painted in the same color as the lower part. The lower part is a hemisphere containing a battery, a weight, a control unit and a motor. The motor is mounted centrally and causes a weight to rotate in the equatorial area of the hemisphere. This movement causes the hemisphere to tilt in the direction of the weight, with the tilt point constantly changing with the motor movement. In this way, the entire object rotates around its own axis at an angle of around 45 degrees in twelve hours. The dragonfly always remains at the highest point of the cylinder, while the dial moves with the movement of the motor. The dragonfly is positioned below the numbers on the dial and thus shows the current time.