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The Astronomical Clock at Bracken House, Cannon Street, London.
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What makes (the original) Bracken House unique is the attention to detail and quality of material: the oak-leaf decoration around the main Cannon Street entrance, the lantern, the boxed-out bronze oriel windows with the free-standing ‘Egyptian’ columns, also made of bronze, and of course, the astronomical clock. It was designed in 1959 in gilt metal and enamel and shows Roman numerals, the months, and the signs of the zodiac, with the sun in the centre. The original design was even more elaborate and framed by Atlas figures, but they were lost in the final execution. A drawing of the first design was shown at the 1955 Royal Academy Exhibition by Albert Richardson himself, who was at the time President to the Academy. The zodiac signs have been ascribed to Frank Dobson and the face (as well as the oak-leaf mouldings around the door) is the work of Phillip Bentham.(4) And yes, the face in the sun does resemble Winston Churchill, a tribute to him as Bracken‘s personal friend.
Bracken House was built in the second half of the 1950s to house the Financial Times and named after Brendan Bracken (1901-1958), the former chairman of the paper. The building was designed by Bracken’s friend Sir Albert Richardson (1880-1964) who deliberately made use of pink brick and Hollington sandstone to reflect the colour of the newspaper. The design was “a curious mixture of Italian Renaissance and Swedish twentieth-century neo-classical elements”.(1) It consisted of two separate elevations, one on Cannon Street and one on Queen Victoria Street with the utilitarian printing works in between. Because the site was not exactly rectangular or square and because Distaff Lane and Friday Street on either side of the building slope down towards the river, not to mention the existence of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey in the southwest corner, the two elevations do not align properly and the 24 floor levels inside were ‘complicated’ to say the least.
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A closer view of Brighton’s Clock Tower that commemorates Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee of 1887. Her wayward son Bertie is depicted on the panel. He was to become King Edward VII in 1901. The cables spreading out from the Tower hold lights that illuminate the scene at night.
Professor Martin Fisher speeds past, in the guise of Brighton & Hove 438 (BF12KXR). It is a Volvo B9TL with Wright Gemini Eclipse 2 bodywork. Prof. Martin Fisher was a noted doctor who became an HIV consultant in Brighton in 1995. Many patients owe their lives to his tireless work. The Martin Fisher Foundation was set up in 2015 to continue his work.
Waterstones bookstore now occupies the former Burton’s tailoring building.
This fridge was a fancy one. Here is a pic of the clock on the front. It's been cleaned up quite a bit.
A shaddow clock (?). Dedicated by the astronomer Nymaatre.
Late Period. E 11737
A sundial, made of alabaster. E 11738
Louvre Museum
The working clock is the oldest in the world. It is made with thousands of varieties of flowers and is re-created each year designed to commemorate special occasions. This year it celebrates the centenary of Edinburgh Zoo.
It was invented by John McHattie of Edinburgh Parks and was first planted up in the spring of 1903 in West Princes Street Gardens. In that year it had only an hour hand but a minute hand was added the following year. It was soon imitated across the United Kingdom and later throughout the world. Here the clock mechanism is set inside the plinth of the statue to Allan Ramsay adjacent. There is also a cuckoo which calls each hour.
Inspired by the cyclops watch from Mr Jones Watches (http://mrjoneswatches.com/html/cyclops.html) I set out to create my own prototype.
Using a cheap IKEA clock, I printed a new face and taped it over the old one.
The colours were chosen using the In Rainbows equation to convert a string to an md5 hash, then take the first 6 hex digits. Those are the values for "01:00", "01:30", ..., "12:00", "12:30". I don't think I would personally choose those values, but I went with them anyway to see how they look.
I like the idea of waking-up at about royal blue o'clock.
El reloj público de San Fernando de Montecristi, es el símbolo de esta ciudad, fue construido por una iniciativa del venezolano Benigno Daniel Conde, quien recolectó los fondos para su adquisición. Fabricado en Francia por el relojero Jean Paul Garnier, alcanza los 96 pies (30 metros). Inicialmente funciono en la ciudad francesa de Saint- Germain-en-Laye. Una vez llegado por vía marítima a dominicana, fue trasportado en tranvía hasta su lugar original, el Parque Duarte (antigua Plaza de Armas), donde fue instalado el 11 de marzo de 1895, siendo inaugurado el 29 de junio de ese año. En las celebraciones de su inauguración estuvieron presentes el generalísimo dominicano Máximo Gómez y el apóstol cubano José Martí, quien expresó: "Este reloj marcará muy pronto la hora de redención de Cuba". | Datos de Montecristi LIVE.
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The public clock of San Fernando de Montecristi, is the symbol of this city, was built by an initiative of the Venezuelan Benigno Daniel Conde, who collected funds for purchase. Made in France by the clockmaker Jean Paul Garnier, reaches 96 feet (30 meters). It initially worked in the French town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Once arrived by sea at Dominican Republic, it was transported by tram to its original place, the Parque Duarte (former Plaza de Armas), where it was installed on March 11, 1895 and inaugurated on June 29 of that year. To its inauguration celebrations attended Dominican Generalissimo Máximo Gómez and José Martí, Cuban Apostle, who said: "This clock will soon mark Cuba redemption." | Data from Montecristi LIVE.
ich liebe Uhren mit Zeigern.Ein Engel möge eure Zeit behüten.
I like clocks with hand. An angel may guard your time.
I built this working cuckoo clock out of Lego bricks. It's using a quartz movement that I modified to work with the lego bricks.
The clock was designed in Bricksmith and I bought most of the parts through Bricklink.
A video of the clock in action is available at Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v3BFXiamNA
China made mechanical alarm clock, one day winding. The owl eyes sway left and right while the clock is running..tick....tock....tick...tock
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
A work in progress, this device uses a 3" cathode ray tube to display the current time. Each letter is built up from individual line segments. Anode voltage is roughly 1200V, and the entire clock runs from a 5VDC power supply.