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The round-face design and the use of increments based on sixty for clocks dates back into ancient history. The Sumerians were the first to divide the circle into 360 degrees (their numerical system was based on intervals of six), making it logical to use a round surface as a measure of time.

Invented in 1883 the flying pendulum/flying ball/ "Ignatz" clock is a clock using a small metal ball on the end of a string as a pendulum. The ball swings in a circular motion to one side where it wraps around a brass post, unwraps and swings to a post on the other side repeating the motion. Notoriously poor timekeepers, the clocks crazy motion lead to the "Ignatz" nickname after a character in a the "Krazy Kat" comic.