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My parents' grandfather clock. Movement made in Germany, case built in Hong Kong, c. 1987. This was purchased in 1988 off a relative who had ordered this clock but received the wrong finish.
Until April 2016, when an auto-winding mechanism was fitted (much to my dismay!), Perth station clock was powered by this great weight, which slowly dropped some 15 feet through a wooden case to the platform level below.
I enjoy crab legs and lobster tail, but man, they are way too messy and complicated to eat. Had that for dinner tonight, and they were also covered in sauce, and I just sort of got sauce everywhere, and it was tasty but stressful. If I ever do that again, I'm gonna do it at home so I can just take off my shirt and really get into it, then shower afterwards. That seems the best way to do it.
This clock was a retirement gift for my Mom. The owner of the Master Tool and Mold asked me to create this for her as gift from the company. The gold bricks for the face are from Chrome Block City and the chrome silver engraved tiles for the numbers from Bricks4all. The clock mecanism is of course not LEGO but does play Westminster Chimes.
I've never created a clock before so I was a bit nervouse about how this would turn out. My Mom loved it though, as did every one else at the retirement party so I guess I did well on this one.
As densely populated Manhattan can be overwhelming, I decided to take a day trip to the suburbs. As I had never ventured into Long Island before, I took a ride on the Long Island Rail Road. I decided to come all the way out to Huntington in Suffolk County, simply due to Huntington being the place where my pop music idol Mariah Carey grew up, and the Long Island Rail Road having previously been Mariah's teenage-era run to/from Manhattan to meet with musician friends; I wanted to pay tribute to the town and the atmosphere that had shaped her and her music. Other celebrities, such as Billy Joel and Lindsay Lohan, have also called Huntington home at one time or another.
A streetside clock tower.
Visit to the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio on March 17, 2013. This is an excellent collection of historic cars as well as a few airplanes. I didn't see any information about this rather old propeller, but it has several autographs (one can be glimpsed
at the right edge) on the blades and this clock in the center.
The shot was taken through glass.
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore,
Florence, Italy
The clock above the main door inside the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, or the Duomo, as it is better known in Florence, is the only one of its kind in working order anywhere in the world. To the modern eye, it looks positively bizarre. At its centre, a golden star decorates the blue disc of the clock’s face, whilst the heads of what are believed to be the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are encircled at each corner of the dial’s square frame.
The clock has only one hand, running anti-clockwise from the Roman numeral XXIIII at the bottom, which does not indicate midnight. The clock, in fact, registers the ora italica (‘Italian time’), also known as Bohemian time or Julian time, after Julius Caesar’s 46 CE calendar, which began at sunset and ended at sunset.
Thanks to Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, we know that Paolo di Dono (1397–1475), nicknamed ‘Uccello’ because of his love of strange animals and, in particular, birds, was paid 40 lire in February 1443 when he completed frescoing the face of the clock, which is almost 2 meters in diameter and situated 15 meters off the ground. Obsessed as he was with perspective, in this the second of the works this solitary and eccentric painter from Pratovecchio was commissioned to do in the Duomo, Uccello merged light and shadows on each of the prophets’ faces, making the viewer think that light is streaming in from a window (that, in reality, does not exist), high up on the wall to the left of the clock.
Due to its delicacy, the mechanism has required numerous interventions over the years, including a 17th-century addition: a pendulum based on the studies of Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei and Dutch mathematician and horologist Christiaan Huygens. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Transalpine, French or Gregorian system for measuring time was widely used in Northern Europe. Time was measured in units of 12: midnight to noon (ante meridiem) and noon to midnight (post meridiem). The hours were usually represented in Roman numerals and the hands pointing to them operated a left-to-right (or clockwise) movement. This analog system gradually became established as a standard, further reinforced by the spread of mechanical clocks that did not require continuous maintenance.
But Tuscany was not eager to adopt the analog system. Such was the resistance that, in 1749, Grand Duke Francesco Stefano published an edict enforcing this imported method for calculating time and threatening severe punishment to anyone who failed to adopt it. Therefore, during restoration of the mechanism in 1761, Uccello’s clock face was covered by a new 12-hour version. During this modification, the clock’s original gilded copper hand crafted by the artist also disappeared and a new one was made in the shape of a shooting star. Although the original hand was never recovered, in 1973, after a five-year restoration, Uccello’s clock face is again visible and keeping ora italica.
The beast: I want to do something for her... But what?
Cogsworth: Well, there's the usual things: flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep...
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The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square. The clock mechanism itself is composed of three main components: the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; "The Walk of the Apostles", a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures -- notably a figure of Death (represented by a skeleton) striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.
This is so beautiful alarm clock . & I wanna remember you to do your right work when you had perfect time .
The Prague Astronomical Clock, or Prague Orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʃskiː orloj]), is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working.
The locally well known 'Britvic Clock Tower' landmark which as viewed from Chelmsford Crematorium in April 2017 which was located at the back of the former Britvic Soft Drinks Widford factory site on Westway in City of Chelmsford in Essex (UK).
The iconic Britvic clock tower was constructed along with the rest of the factory in 1954 and was demolished in late 2017.
The Britvic factory at Widford closed for good on March 14th 2014 and the site was demolished and cleared less the clock tower in January/February 2017.
The site was turned into a retail park ironically called 'Clock Tower Retail Park' with a new replica Britvic clock tower constructed at the entrance.
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
The Town Clock on Citadel Hill in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
I was just heading home and noticed how nice the moon looked over the clock. I didn't have a tripod with me but new VR lens was on the old D70 so I figured I would see if I could get a descent shot. Not the sharpest image but usable, probably wouldn't have gotten it without the VR.
I just checked the exif data: f4.8 @ 1.5s
OK, now I know I got lucky!
For inspiration and sources and resources please see the Mathmap Group and Escher's Droste Print Gallery.
The Prague Astronomical Clock or Prague Orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [praʒskiː ɔrlɔi]) is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, at 50°5′13.23″N 14°25′15.30″E / 50.0870083°N 14.420917°E / 50.0870083; 14.420917. The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square and is a popular tourist attraction.
The Orloj is composed of three main components: the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; "The Walk of the Apostles", a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.
The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor.
Later, presumably around 1490, the calendar dial was added and clock facade decorated with gothic sculptures.
In 1552 it was repaired by Jan Taborský, clock-master of Orloj, who also wrote a report on the clock where he mentioned Hanuš as maker of the clock. This was a mistake, and was corrected during the 20th century.
The Orloj stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times. Some speculate that the government purposely gouged out the original maker's eyes in order to prevent him from making a similar clock for another country. After this he died touching the clock, at which point the clock stopped working and remained unrepairable for a number of years. In the 17th century moving statues were added, and figures of the Apostles were added after major repair in 1865-1866.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans directed incendiary fire from several armored vehicles and an anti-aircraft gun to the south-west side of the Old Town Square in an effort to silence the provocative broadcasting initiated by the National Committee on May 5. The hall and nearby buildings burned along with the wooden sculptures on the Orloj and the calendar dial face made by Josef Mánes. The machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtěch Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948, but only after significant effort.
There exists a good deal of misinformation relating to the construction of the Orloj[citation needed]. For a long time it was believed that the Orloj was constructed in 1490 by clockmaster Jan Růže (also called Hanuš) and his assistant Jakub Čech. Another fictitious story involves the clockmaker Hanuš being blinded on the order of the Prague Councillors.
A large three-sided Iron framed clock, in the Art Deco Style, manufactured by "Gents" advertsing a Jewellers Shop on the high street in Yeovil. Somerset UK
Something is off here... other than the fact that this clock is backwards.
According to the EXIF information for this photo, it was taken at 5:43 local time (I never changed my camera's clock when I entered Utah; does anybody think to do that in a different time zone?). The closest I can figure is that this wall clock is trying to tell me that it's about 5:37, so one of us is wrong (maybe in more than one way!).
When these folks are trying to be REALLY funny, they probably hang the clock upside down.
Seen in the Moab Diner, Moab, Utah. (Even the waitress couldn't figure it out for me.)
German made Seth Thomas mantel clock. All brass construction with glass panels at the sides and damn heavy !! The original 2 side glass panels were broken when i received the clock and I have to cut out the panels from a spare piece of glass to get them replaced.
This guy has got an unique movement among the battery powered design, a tunning fork. An ingenious design using an electronic circuit to generate a resonant frequency tuned to the natural frequency of the fork. When applied across the fork, it would then vibrate at a constant rate, the vibration is then translated into mechanical movement thru'a series of gear mechism whereby providing accurate time indication. Size: 8"(H) 6"(W) 2"(D)
This clock is made in the 60's
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