  I give a pedagogical discussion of thermal dark matter (DM) within the
clockwork mechanism. The clockwork mechanism, which is a natural way to
generate small numbers starting from order-one couplings, allows to have a
long-lived, but unstable, DM particle that nevertheless has O(1) couplings with
electroweak- or TeV-scale states. Remarkably, DM decays on time scales much
longer than the age of the Universe and has at the same time sizeable couplings
with light states, which therefore allow to produce it thermally within the
WIMP paradigm. These new particles with large couplings can be searched for at
current or future colliders. I also briefly comment on how this setup can
minimally emerge from the deconstruction of an extra dimension in flat
spacetime.
