A partnership breakdown between the building owners and the Nannup Clock Tower maker has resulted in the world's biggest wooden pendulum clock closing down.
Nannup resident Kevin Bird, who created the clock over 15 years, said he was feeling saddened after being instructed to remove the clock by Sunday, May 5.
The clock was officially opened to the public in mid-January, after a project was undertaken to move the clock from Mr Bird's property to a specially constructed building on Nannup's main street.
It took six weeks for the clock to be moved and re-constructed in the building, Mr Bird has been given one week to move it out or risk being penalised.
Mr Bird said there was not much that could be done to save the clock from closing and the building owners were well within their legal rights.
"It is a shame, we offered to lease the building but they declined. There is not much we can do they own the building," he said.
"Now I am preparing scaffolding to take it down, I have until Sunday night."
The clock has attracted visitors from around the world including a lady who runs clock tours at the Zytglogge in Bern, Switzerland.
Mr Bird said it had also brought descendants of John Harrison to Nannup. Harrison was an acclaimed clock maker and the man who invented the marine chronometer around 1730.
The same gadget which sparked Mr Bird's interest in clock making, which came about from his time working as an aircraft engineer with Ansett, a career he started in 1963.
Mr Bird said most of the planes were ex-military and all had wind up chronometers which were used by pilots as a fallback if they were lost to determine their position of longitude.
The chronometers had to be serviced every 3500 hours, the hours were stored in the back of the clock so they could still be measured when the plane was not doing any flight hours.
"At any one time there would be about 50 chronometers going through the servicing department, I spent six months servicing them, and quite frankly I hated the sods of things," he said.
"They were beautifully made but they were so intricate and exact, you cannot sit down with an eyeglass in your head all day, you go kind of stir crazy.
"While I did not like them I knew how a clock worked. I have a passion for timber and I thought well why not make a clock out of wood."
He decided to make the big wooden pendulum clock at a timber conference in Canberra where they were discussing how they could improve the timber industry's reputation with the public.
"I said if we build a clock, a really big clock out of wood, that would demonstrate what value adding really is," he said.
"I thought about it and did not think it would be that hard, but it turned out it was. Building the clock took a lot of time, patience and trail and error."
Mr Bird said the big wooden clock constantly moved it had a two second pendulum, which took two seconds to travel from one side to the other.
"That allows the escapement to go tick-tock, every bit in there is doing exactly the same thing - nothing goes around - it is stop-start.
"Everything happens so slowly, there is an escapement wheel at the top that goes around once a minute.
"Then everything is slower down to the hour, with the hour wheel only going around once every 12 hours.
"It is going to wear out? Not in my lifetime."
The building's owner Heather Walford said she was absolutely gutted the clock was being removed after only operating for three months.
Ms Walford said it had been going so well, but the partnership broke down to such a point they had to make the decision to dissolve the attraction.
Her partner Rod Marshall said Mr Bird had repeatedly threatened to take the clock home.
The Shire of Nannup were contacted for comment but did not respond by the time of publication.
