Sky Watcher Tourbillon Table ClockSky Watcher Tourbillon Table Clock Assemble me. Catch the star moment! The Clockwork Universe theory, favored by 17th century deists, held that the Earth and the heavens, and all their motions, were like a giant clock, with God as the Clockmaker. Newton's three laws of motion and the principle of universal gravitation were thought to be sufficient to explain phenomena of any kind, using mechanical conceptions. At Ugears we love mechanical conceptions!