Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

I'm not sure why there's that much. It could be because we sped up the process. We had several that were fairly large payments, so we collected quite a bit of money.

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.