List of clocks

 

Did you Know? Some tower clocks are really police radio control centers which are built for police communication over great distances. They look just like a basic clock but in the inside they are a radio control center.

North America

• Colgate Clock, New York City
• Clock of the Long Now, not yet built but planned for Colorado
• Jessop's Clock, San Diego, California
• peace tower, Ottawa, Canada

South America

Europe

Czech Republic

• Prague Orloj

Denmark

• Jens Olsen's World Clock

England

• Big Ben in London England's most famous clock, 'Big Ben' is actually the name of the bell, rather than the clock, but most people associate the name with the clock.
• Eastgate Clock, Chester One of the most photographed clocks in England outside London.
• Salisbury cathedral clock, Salisbury This dial-less clock, still working, is probably the oldest surviving clock mechanism in the world.
• Shepherd gate clock, Greenwich, London This clock heralded the start of standardized time, in the form of Greenwich Mean Time.
• Wells Cathedral clock The dial of this clock displays a model of the universe in miniature. The mechanism, dated at 1392 and still working, is in London's Science Museum.

France

• Strasbourg astronomical clock The current clock in the cathedral, completed in 1842, is one of the most complicated mechanical clocks ever made.

Isle Of Man

• Jubilee clock is a street clock in the Isle of Man capital of Douglas built in 1887 as commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign.

Switzerland

• St Peter's Church Clock, Zurich Has the largest clock-face in Europe.

Germany

• In Esslingen, Germany, at the headquarters of Festo, Professor Hans Scheurenbrand has constructed the Harmonices Mundi, a sophisticated astronomical clock, a world time clock, and a 74 bell glockenspiel.
• The Alexanderplatz in Berlin contains the famous World Time clock
• The Rathaus-Glockenspiel (1908), an ornate clock located in Munich's Marienplatz with almost life-sized moving figures that show scenes from a medieval jousting tournament as well as a performance of the famous "Schäfflertanz" (roughly translated "Barrel-makers' dance".

Ireland

• The Four Liars, Cork, Ireland -->

The Albert clock, Belfast

Italy

• St Mark's Clock Venice

Asia

Clock Tower of Dubai

Africa

Juhanasburg Clock

Australia

suncorp clock,brisbane

city hall clock, brisbane

Cat and Fiddle Arcade, Hobart

Other

• Doomsday Clock by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which symbolizes man's current risk of nuclear war.

See also

• List of biggest clock faces

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