12" dia. x 14"

The hour is well past midnight, and the observatory breathes with a stillness known only to those who keep vigil with the heavens. A thin frost has gathered along the brass fittings of your telescope, its long barrel aimed unwaveringly at a patch of sky you have charted and re-charted for weeks. By lamplight, your study below glows amber—star charts unfurled across the desk, ink annotations layered upon the careful work of earlier nights. Each observation has led you here. You pause between glances through the eyepiece to consult your tables, tracing the predicted motion with a steady finger, aware that what unfolds tonight will mark not merely a passage of time, but a subtle correction in mankind’s reckoning of it.

Beside you, the orrery turns with quiet authority, its jeweled escapement ticking with a precision that feels almost sentient. Tiny spheres—Earth, Moon, Sun—glide in miniature harmony, their alignment guiding your hand as you adjust the telescope’s angle by the smallest degree. The calendar, that great human attempt to cage the cosmos, yields slightly to the truth revealed in your lens. You make your notation with care, aware that this night, preserved in ink and mechanism alike, will outlive you—one more measured step in humanity’s long negotiation with the sky.

The Tellurium by Hermle is a beautiful mechanical orrery, made in Germany with quarter-hour bell chime. It follows the Earth's rotation around the sun throughout the calendar year and gives us a picture of the moon phases as they are visible from Earth. This model features a detailed zodiac ring, calendar, and Westminster chimes on bells.

• Made in Germany
• Westminster Chimes on Bells
• Automatic Night Shut Off
• Brass Movement 8-day power reserve with jeweled, platform escapement, cal. w0352
• Calendar, earth and moon position, Sunrise/sunset, Moon phases