a 2 x 1 grid, a hand-carved alpine chalet mechanism (cuckoo-clock adjacent but not strictly a clock) built into a classic book base with shutters, pendulums, and tiny moving figures. Panel A ({argument name="panel A theme" default="Don Quixote"}): carved windmill roofline with rotating sails and a spring-lunge knight. Panel B ({argument name="panel B theme" default="1984"}): carved brutalist watchtower façade with a blinking iris shutter and sweeping searchlight arm. Style: Photoreal hand-carved woodcraft, visible chisel marks and oiled walnut grain, cozy warm hearthlight + cool moon rim, soft volumetric haze, shallow depth of field, centered on rustic plinths, 65mm perspective, background in deep forest green seamless.