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A list of permanent working clocks with the largest faces in the world. Entries include all clocks with faces at least 4 m (13 ft) in diameter. Clocks can be located on the exterior or interior of buildings, and towers as well as on the ground as is the case with floral clock faces.
Houses Jens Olsen's World Clock [35] 19: Minneapolis City Hall: 105 m (344 ft) 4: Yes: 1906: Tower-Building: Clock Tower/Government: USA: Minneapolis: Largest four face chiming clock in the world. Clock faces are 7.2 m (24 ft). [36] 20: Lille City Hall Belfry: 104 m (341 ft) 4: Yes: 1932: Tower Building: Government: France: Lille
The building is topped by a four-faced clock, visible from 25 kilometres (16 miles) away. The clock is the highest in the world at over 400 m (1,300 ft) above the ground, surpassing the Allen-Bradley clock tower in Milwaukee. The clock faces are the largest in the world, surpassing the Cevahir Mall clock in Istanbul.
The current clock tower stands at 280 ft (85 m). [3] Because the octagonal faces are nearly twice the size of the faces of London's Big Ben, chimes were never added in an attempt to allow Big Ben to remain the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world. In fact, that title has belonged to the Minneapolis City Hall clock since 1909. Each hour ...
The clock uses its original mechanism and was the largest and most accurate four-faced striking and chiming clock in the world upon its completion. [7] It was designed by Edmund Beckett Denison and George Airy , the Astronomer Royal , and constructed by Edward John Dent and Frederick Dent.
The Abraj Al Bait, a hotel complex in Mecca constructed in 2012, has the largest and highest clock face on a building in the world, with its Makkah Royal Clock Tower having an occupied height of 494.4 m (1,622 ft), and a tip height of 601 m (1,972 ft). [12] The tower has four clock faces, two of which are 43 m (141 ft) in diameter, at about 400 ...
The world's largest cuckoo clock since 1997, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Schonachbach (Triberg, Germany). Several unusually large cuckoo clocks have been built and installed in different cities of the world with the aim of attracting visitors, as part of publicity of a cuckoo clock shop, or to serve as a landmark for the community and town.
The light sculpture on the Rheinturm is the largest digital clock in the world. [3] The clock is a 24-hour clock with six sets of lights, two each for the Hour (00 to 24), Minutes (00 to 60), and Seconds (00 to 60), to be read from top to bottom.