The main feature of this ‘Clock work doll Cosplay” is obviously the huge key. This represents the more fantasy element of the Clock punk costume and the massive role clock work plays in the aesthetic. All you need is someone to wind you up and the world is your oyster.
This is a clock punk gent see the pocket watch pattern waistcoat a homage to gears and cogs and mechanical winding. He is wearing a great Renaissance style long coat with cravat, medals, keys, goggles and top hat with feather.
This is a more basic renaissance costume with less fantasy involved that could be the basis of a Clock Punk Cosplay. All you would need for this is some Clock punk staple pieces like a pocket watch and maybe a telescope or other relevant era gadget.
Another amazing Cosplay with a ticking insides window to give the feel of magic animating this automaton character for its power, no steam because that is Steampunk not Clockpunk. A beautiful Renaissance style dress with high collar to accompany it.
Some examples of Renaissance clothing;
Clockpunk jewellery
Brooches
Gears and cogs earrings
Gears and cogs bracelet
Ring gears and cogs
Resin cogs and gears cufflinks
Cogs and gears necklace
Clock punk creatures
Clock punk creatures are common in the setting they are made completely of metal and can animated if they are small on being wound or by magic if they are large and vice versa. Below we show some of the popular creatures.
Clockwork Dragon
Clockwork Spider
Clock work scorpion
Clockpunk anime
The clockpunk universe translates perfectly for anime it being able to explore all its grand opulence for clockwork machinery and big beautiful renaissance settings as well as an assortment of characters.
Unbreakable machine
Unbreakable Machine- Doll is a Japanese light new series written by Reiji Kaitō and illustrated by Ruroo. Media Factory has published seventeen volumes under their MF Bunko J imprint from November 2009
Clock punk planet
Clockwork Planet is a Japanese light novel series, written by Yuu Kamiya and Tsubaki Himana, and illustrated by Shino. Kodansha has published four volumes since April 2, 2013 under their Kodansha Ranobe Bunko imprint.
Bibliophile Stalker
It’s set in the Meiji era and instead of robots, you get marionettes which are powered by clockwork.
Clockpunk Games
As with the anime, games are able to really showcase the settings of the Clock punk aesthetic more so than movies being in a virtual world that can be completely constructed from the imagination easily. There are a lot of games that delve into the Clock punk aesthetic beautiful as it is with their settings, art and characters even being able to control automaton characters made and powered by gears and cogs. Below we show our top Clock punk inspired games.
Clock Work Empire
Syberia
The Syberia Adventure Game duology revels in all kinds of clockwork mechanisms: from a Cool Train that has to be rewound at each station, to quasi-sentient clockwork automatons.
Clockpunk gadgets
Nautical compass
Pocket watch mechanical
Typewriters
Clockwork Soldiers
Clockpunk Movies
Movies are not able to explore the overall realm as good as games though we get a little closer to the characters and the clothing and gadgets. Some movies below with think you should see to experience the Clock punk world:
The Hellboy
The first movie has a Russian tomb with clockwork deathtraps. One of the villains, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, is a clockwork zombie Cyborg Nazi homicide.
Hellboy II
The Golden Army, there is Wink, an ogre with a chained clockwork Rocket Fist. And the eponymous army is made up of clockwork robots; indeed the crown that controls them fits together like clockwork. And at the end, Hellboy and Prince Nuada fight on mammoth, moving cogs.
Hugo
Aesthetic is grounded heavily on clockwork. Justified in that it’s set in a road station erected in the late 19th century.
Clockpunk novels
The Clock Work Game
Main Spring
Alchemy of Stone
Clockpunk tattoo
Cogs and gears
Clocks
Padlock
Type writer
Now with this insight in to the inner ticking and turning of the Clock punk universe you can begin your exploration of the fashion. If you would like to start your Clock punk Cosplay costume a Steampunk pocket watch is the perfect first accessory to build upon. We have a wonderful selection see here