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The clock was created in 1955 as a symbol of the city's watchmakers, and a dedication to nature. Its second hand is the longest in the world, at 2.5 metres (8.2 ft). It was the largest flower clock in the world, with a diameter of 5 metres (16 ft), until the 2005 installation of a 15 metres (49 ft) one in Tehran, Iran. [1]
The largest four-dial gravity clock in the world. Tower is 88.1 m (289 ft) [25] 34: Minneapolis City Hall: 7.2 m (24 ft) 4: No: 1906: Clock tower: USA: Minneapolis: Largest four-face chiming clock in the world. Clock tower is 105 m (344 ft). Minute hands are 4.3 m (14 ft) [26] 35: Elizabeth Tower: 7 m (23 ft) 4: Yes: 1859: Clock Tower: United ...
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
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
Sir John Bennett; 65 Cheapside, London, watch, clock and jewellery manufacturer (15 October 1814- 3 July 1897), was a watchmaker and local politician. He was the eldest son of John Bennett, watchmaker, of Greenwich.
The Royal Liver Building Clock, Liverpool is Britain's largest clock face, and the largest electronically driven clocks in the UK. Salisbury Cathedral clock displays a model of the universe in miniature. The mechanism, dated at 1392 and still working, is in London's Science Museum.
The Zytglogge (Bernese German: [ˈtsiˌkːlɔkːə]; lit. ' time bell ') is a landmark medieval tower in Bern, Switzerland.Built in the early 13th century, it has served the city as a guard tower, prison, clock tower, centre of urban life and civic memorial.
The church clock of St. Peter has the second-largest tower clock face in Europe, the outer diameter of each of the four church clocks measures 8.64 metres (28.3 ft), [1] the minute hand 5.73 metres (18.8 ft), the hour hand 5.07 metres (16.6 ft), and the minute crack of the large pointer measures 0.455 metres (1.5 ft). [2]