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List of biggest clock faces

 
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Abraj Al Bait Clock
St. Peter church in Zürich (Switzerland)
  • Abraj Al Bait Towers clock in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a 40 meters clock will be built on this 595 meters hotel tower under construction in front of the mecca.[1]
  • Cevahir Mall clock in Istanbul, a 36 meters clock with 3 meter high digits lain on the transparent roof of the mall, built in 2005.
  • Duquesne Brewing Company Clock, Pittsburgh, a single 18 meters octogonal clock built by Audichron of Atlanta, GA, in 1933, with 8.5 meters and 6.4 meters aluminium hands.[2]
  • Colgate Clock (New Jersey), a 15.2 meters clock Built in 1924 in New Jersey to replace the old Colgate Clock, which was moved to Indiana.
  • Flower clock, Tehran, a 15 meters flower clock. It weighs in at 750 kg, and was installed on 7 June 2005.[3]
  • Allen-Bradley Clock Tower, four 12.25 meters clocks on a 86 meters tower buit in 70s, biggest four-faced clock. Each hour hand is 4.8 m long and weighs 220 kg. Each minute hand is 6.1 m long and weighs 240 kg. The hour markings are 1.2 m high.
  • Colgate Clock (Indiana), 12 meters clock, built in 1906 in New Jersey for the centennial of the Colgate Company. Moved to Indiana in 1924.
  • St. Peter, Zürich, a 8.7 meters clock, built in 1534, the biggest church clock face.
  • Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, 8 meters clocks on all four side of this 213 meters tower built in 1909. Each hours hand weighs 350 kg and each minutes hand weighs 500 kg.
  • Philadelphia City Hall, 7.9 meters clocks on all four sides of the metal portion of this 167 meters tower built in 1901.
  • Royal Liver Building clock, Liverpool, six 7.6 meters clocks on two 90 meters towers, each with three clock faces, built in 1911.
  • Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower, Baltimore, Maryland, four 7.3 meters clocks on a 88 meters tower built in 1911. The largest four dial gravity clock in the world.
  • Big Ben, London, 6.9 meters clocks on all four side of this 96 meters tower built in 1859. Biggest four-faced chiming clock.
  • Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland, four 6.2 meters clocks were had in 2000 on this 237 meters tower built in 1955. The world's second-tallest clock tower.


Notes

  1. ^ skyscraperpage
  2. ^ Time is no longer frozen on landmark clock
  3. ^ Tehran "Flower Clock" rivals Big Ben

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