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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
Currently not open to the public. With the addition of the clock now the third tallest freestanding clock tower in the world [50] 35: Belfry of Ghent: 91 m (299 ft) 4: Yes: 1543: Tower Building: Clock Tower/Belfry: Belgium: Ghent: Part of the Belfries of Belgium and France, a UNESCO World Heritage site. [51] [52] [53] 36: St Lambert's Church ...
The following is a list of notable companies that produced, or currently produce clocks. Where known, the location of the company and the dates of clock manufacture follow the name. In some instances the "company" consisted of a single person.
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]
The Zytglogge clock is one of the three oldest clocks in Switzerland. [19] The Zytglogge as shown on a 1542 glass painting. Following the first expansion of Bern, the Zytglogge was the gate tower of the western fortifications. At this time, it was a squat tower of only about 16 m (52 ft) in height which was open in the back. [19]