>“Although metal is precious, and so would have been recycled, it is odd that nothing remotely similar has been found or dug up,” Wojcik said. “If they had the tech to make the Antikythera mechanism, why did they not extend this tech to devising other machines, such as clocks?” it was probably a model made by a Da Vinci type genius, who was traveling with his invention to another city state to get a patron to fund his work.