From history:

His Holiness the Patriarch Alexi II gave his blessing to S.Karelin to complete the work the latter began 20 yeas ago.

Shortly about "Clock…"

Author:
 
Sergei Karelin /Russia/
Silversmith and goldsmith, member of the Union of Artists of Russia, academician of Petrovskaya Academy of Science and Art /S-Petersburg/.

Material:
 
german silver, brass, gilding.

Stones:
 
zircons ("Matura diamonds"), ruby, diamond ("Coster Diamond" – Amsterdam).
 
For the first time a new kind of representing precious stones –  “living disppersion”  was applied.

The aim of the work:
 
The clock shows the count down of the time from the moment of the Birth of the Earth to the moment of its collapse owing to its inevitable approach to the Sun. The work proclaims the drawing together the world religions, the union of all nations, the immediate stop of all war conflicts in the face of the fatal disaster.

Programme:
 
“The Clock for the Planet Earth” will be first demonstrated in the native town of Vladimir, then it will be exhibited in other cities of the world.