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This backward clock is on the side of the Hawings Bazaar Building in Beccles,
Suffolk. The poor guy on top has not fixed it yet!
Taken with a Nikon D90 and 18-200mm VR
Belfast, July 2018. Olympus Trip 35 with Ilford XP2 Super. C-41 processed and scanned by Digital Photo Express Carlisle.
One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, rock
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
Put your glad rags on and join me, hon'
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
When the clock strikes two, three and four
If the band slows down we'll yell for more
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
When the chimes ring five, six and seven
We'll be right in seventh heaven
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven too
I'll be goin' strong and so will you
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock
The clock in Grand Central Terminal (Station) New York, USA.
The Main Concourse is the center of Grand Central. The space is cavernous – 275 ft (84 m) long, 120 ft (37 m) wide and 125 ft (38 m) high[12] – and usually filled with bustling crowds. The ticket booths are located in the Concourse, although many now stand unused or repurposed since the introduction of ticket vending machines. The large American flag was hung in Grand Central Terminal a few days after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The main information booth is in the center of the concourse. This is a perennial meeting place, and the four-faced clock on top of the information booth is perhaps the most recognizable icon of Grand Central. Each of the four clock faces is made from opal, and both Sotheby's and Christie's have estimated the value to be between $10 million and $20 million. Within the marble and brass pagoda lies a "secret" door that conceals a spiral staircase leading to the lower level information booth.
The clock at Corpus Christi College. I actually know the guy whose firm made chunks of it... It's, errmm, interesting - and very hard to photograph because of reflections from the thick sheet of glass in front of it, hence the skewed viewpoint.
This is an unusually large size battery driven swinger clock which stand at 26" in height. This is unusual in a way that the entire swinger together with the clock moves. Most of which the clock itself remains stationary while only the arm extend below the clock moves.
Two sexy loosely clad lady tirelessly holding up a swinging clock structure. The time movement is quartz and the swinging action is electromagnetic. Bought this in a small novelty shop at Hay street during my trip to Perth in 2003AD The 2 ladies got nice bodies.....:)
Turn me on sometimes :)))
Not an easy clock to handle however. The 2 ladies are very temperamental To set the swinger in motion requires a little mess around with the counter weight so as to delicately offset the balance mechanically, a tricky undertaking indeed. Once the balance on the pivot is set correctly, the electromagnetic impulse would then keep it swinging back and forth. However, due to its massive construction, the swinging motion can't be sustained.
This one is extremely delicate. I don't have much luck (despite replacing the electronic circuitry) persuading the 2 ladies to set the swinger in motion for long until 2015 feb when I finally cracked the code. The problem (in addition to the counter weight adjustment) lies in the position of the coil (attached to the swinger) The original factory position was installed a little too far away from the stationary permanent magnet. The magnetic interaction between the two was not sufficient to cope with the fictional loses thus could not keep the swinger in motion for long. I adjusted the position of the coil to reduce the gap by about 1.5mm and that fixed the problem. The swinger works perfectly ever since.
Only Time will tell and every clock tells a story....
The problem with clock is, once you got two they start to multiply..
It all started when I acquired my first clock a 1960's jap 7-day wall clock from a colleague of mine by the name of Wong Mun Lai, a clock collector
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It was a non-working clock which I wanted to hang up for display. After a while, I felt something amiss. A clock is not a clock if it does'nt work! So I took it apart and do some fixing, to my surprise I managed to get it ticking again ! I was totally fascinated From there I got my second, third and so on....
My favourite has to be the 400 day clock
Amazing time piece and fun to repair Next in line is those of the electromechanical design type
I love the working principles
At the time of writing, my collection is still growing....but has grind to a halt as my interest is now focus on nature photography and music