Aaron Willard, the youngest of four clock-making brothers working in and around Boston, ran what was essentially a factory that efficiently produced clocks in great numbers. But American clocks with whitepainted cases are rare and probably were “bespoke”—specifically ordered by individual clients. Although this eight-day clock was created as a practical household instrument for measuring the passage of time, its elegant decoration invites a more poetic response. The pineapple was an important symbol of welcome in colonial and Federal America. The painted image of a young lady garlanding a sheep with a chain of flowers conjures a romanticized bucolic existence far from the “time-is-money” commercial climate of the United States, which witnessed Willard’s clock factory as a harbinger of mass production.