Above is Jaquet Droz's La Machine à Ecrire le Temps, a machine that has taken over ten years to build, and has thousands of moving parts. For those of you who speak French, you already know what it does. For everybody else, the machine does one thing, and one thing only: writes the time. That's it. When activated, the piece writes the time in hours and minutes, and then spits it out for you. And how much would you expect to pay for this...