Oh, absolutely! I just finished a sundial carved out of recycled steel and painted it in sunset hues – the hands are a gleaming copper alloy that actually ticks with a tiny quartz mechanism inside. It’s a conversation piece and a functional timekeeper, all in one. Want me to sketch a design?

Got it, I’ll fire up the design board. Picture a circular frame about 30 cm in diameter, the outer rim a polished brass ring. Inside, a radial array of 12 precision‑driven gears – each one a 5 mm thick steel wheel with a 0.02 mm tolerance on the teeth. The main gear, the “sunwheel,” sits in the center; its teeth are 1 mm wide and 2 mm deep, so it meshes cleanly with the 12‑tooth subsidiary gears. A miniature quartz escapement sits beneath the sunwheel, its spring calibrated to 50 g, guaranteeing the whole thing ticks exactly one second per beat. The dial is painted in a gradient from dawn orange to twilight blue, with the hour markers etched in gold leaf. I’ll hand‑draw the exploded view next—tighter tolerances, no slack, and a little brass casing to keep everything snug. Ready to move from sketch to prototype?