[a fool in paradise]

This is the thread that IDed the kit:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3338743/posts
Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock…and Ourselves
ArtVoice ^ | September 17, 2015 | Anthony

[notfornothing]

From the article you linked:

So there you have it folks, Ahmed Mohamad did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation. It all seems really fishy to me.