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I was drawing a portrait of one of my characters (fav.me/d9p63ya ), (actually the mother of a side-character who's beginning to get his own storyline), and I felt like there should be something in the background... and a clock would be nice. After 3 different designs for the thing I setteled upon this one (because dragons are awesome...ok not only, I wanted to have this thing to directly relate to its owning family, of coures dragons are still super-awesome).
I made this schematical drawing of it, maybe I will be painting it semi-realistic someday...

As you maybe can tell from size of the two sabres, this clock is supposed to be quite big. It's like a status symbol, and a heirloom from 2 or 3 generations ago. The swords are military officer's sabres (They have like a military tradition in that family and all the firstbors have to "suffer" from that), the pendulum has the coat of arms of the grand-empire-Esgalath on it, the wooden dragon itself stands for this once mighty empire and its (former) Power (so most likely the one who commissioned the clock once was really patriotic/militaristic).

Drawing this has inspired me to further refine the time-calculating concept of my fantasy world: My main concept behind it was to create something more logical and rational (but maybe not practical) than our time claculating.

- the planet revolves slower around itself compared to our earth -> longer days, less days per year

Time calculating:
1 year -> 312/3 days
1 year -> 15 months á 20 days +1 month á 12/3 days
1 month -> 4 quarters/weeks á 5 days
1 day -> 20 hours (24 earth hours ~>17 fantasy hours)
1 hour -> 100 minutes

new year is ~ beginning of spring/end of winter in the northern hemisphere

The clock's dial has 20 subdivisions (for each hour of the day) so: noon is at 5:00 and midnights at 15:00

This clock also shows the full date: so in this moment it is: 14:04(HH:MM) on the 18.05.(1027) (DD.MM.(YYYY)) ok, one still needs to know wich year it is

I hope this was interesting to anyone...

Description
I was drawing a portrait of one of my characters (fav.me/d9p63ya ), (actually the mother of a side-character who's beginning to get his own storyline), and I felt like there should be something in the background... and a clock would be nice. After 3 different designs for the thing I setteled upon this one (because dragons are awesome...ok not only, I wanted to have this thing to directly relate to its owning family, of coures dragons are still super-awesome).
I made this schematical drawing of it, maybe I will be painting it semi-realistic someday...

As you maybe can tell from size of the two sabres, this clock is supposed to be quite big. It's like a status symbol, and a heirloom from 2 or 3 generations ago. The swords are military officer's sabres (They have like a military tradition in that family and all the firstbors have to "suffer" from that), the pendulum has the coat of arms of the grand-empire-Esgalath on it, the wooden dragon itself stands for this once mighty empire and its (former) Power (so most likely the one who commissioned the clock once was really patriotic/militaristic).

Drawing this has inspired me to further refine the time-calculating concept of my fantasy world: My main concept behind it was to create something more logical and rational (but maybe not practical) than our time claculating.

- the planet revolves slower around itself compared to our earth -> longer days, less days per year

Time calculating:
1 year -> 312/3 days
1 year -> 15 months á 20 days +1 month á 12/3 days
1 month -> 4 quarters/weeks á 5 days
1 day -> 20 hours (24 earth hours ~>17 fantasy hours)
1 hour -> 100 minutes

new year is ~ beginning of spring/end of winter in the northern hemisphere

The clock's dial has 20 subdivisions (for each hour of the day) so: noon is at 5:00 and midnights at 15:00

This clock also shows the full date: so in this moment it is: 14:04(HH:MM) on the 18.05.(1027) (DD.MM.(YYYY)) ok, one still needs to know wich year it is

I hope this was interesting to anyone...