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This was the church clock in the market square at Nuremberg. I find these clocks to be spectacular with many having moving parts when the clock chimes. Unfortunately, they have put wire grating around the figures to prevent birds from roosting on them.
Taken 28 June 2024 at Nuremberg, Germany
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... at Old City Hall rises 103 metres (340 ft) at the corner of Queen and Bay Streets in Toronto, directly opposite the new(er) City Hall. It may have taken 10 years to build, but Old City Hall finally opened its doors in 1899. Today it's home to the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice which try cases ranging from minor provincial offences to serious criminal charges under the sharp eyed gaze of four gargoyles atop the tower.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_Hall_(Toronto)
Processed in PS with a firm hand to emphasize the warming late afternoon light and a rich blue sky. Photographed 03Nov2015.
Astronomical Clock, Czech Republic
Clocks involving mechanical figures often tell a story. In Prague, the astronomical clock set into the Old Town Hall Tower shows the procession of the Twelve Apostles, as the hour strikes from 9am to 11pm.
A tower was added to the hall in the Old Town Square in the 14th Century. In 1410, the clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň devised a mechanism that could be added to it. Prague was a multicultural city and it was intended that this clock could be read by anyone, whichever method they used. A calendar element was added in 1490, which moved forward a day on the strike of midnight.
In 1659, the clock underwent repairs and it is believed that the moving figures were incorporated into the clock at this time. Figures on the clock include a skeleton, a vain man carrying a mirror, philosopher, astronomer and stone angel. A golden rooster was added to the clock in 1882, which makes a crowing sound created by a set of bellows.
The astronomical clock has been through many periods of repair and restoration since the 15th Century. The most serious damage came from an incendiary shell destroying much of the clock's workings at the end of the Second World War. It was back in operation again by 1948 and modifications continued through the second half of the 20th Century, including setting the clock to Central European Time (CET) and replacing and repainting the figurines.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbnjxg8
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Anyone who has been to Glasgow’s Buchanan Bus Station will have spotted the striking Clyde Clock.
The cube shaped clock – perched on top of a pair of stainless steel legs, 20 feet high – reminds locals to run on time every single day.
Twelve years after its installment, though, the clock suddenly stopped – and it took the power of Glasgow’s people to get things ticking over again.
One of several astronomical clocks constructed from the 14th through the 16th century in the West of England, the Clock at Wells Cathedral, Somerset, is rather legendary. As the cathedral website notes, it’s the second oldest still-in-use clock mechanism in Britain, and likely the world, to survive in its original condition. Dating back to circa 1390, the interior clock face is the “oldest surviving original of its kind anywhere.” (The original, still-operating mechanisms are now housed in a museum). Age aside, one of the geocentric clock’s most notable characteristics is that it has both interior and exterior dials — that is, there are distinct clock faces viewable from both the interior of the cathedral and from the exterior — the latter was constructed roughly 70 years later but is operated by the same mechanism.
In 2010, the clock made the switch from human winding to electric motor-assisted winding when Paul Fisher — aka the Keeper of the Great Clock of Wells — announced his retirement. Fisher, who hailed from a long line of clock-winders dating back to 1919, was tasked with turning a trio of 250 kg (500 pounds) weights 800 times, three times a week. While performing this 600-year-old-plus ritual was no doubt crucial to the clock’s operation, it had left Fisher eager for retirement: “I'm a bit sad that all these years of history are coming to an end but winding the clock by hand is just so time consuming,” he told the Daily Mail. “By the time you have walked up all the steps and winded the weights it takes at least one hour three times a week.”
Another shot of the 5th Avenue clock and the Flatiron building in New York. The clock was a landmark for the Fifth Avenue Building which is now the Toy Center, a complex of buildings that now are hub for toy manufacturers and distributors in the US.
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百無聊賴，
神出鬼沒的蚊子成了狩獵物。
緊迫的盯伺謀殺，蚊子魂歸西天於我手臂上。
腫隆起的疙瘩丘陵，像是蚊子葬身的墓塚。
偶一抬首，瞥見圓鐘上的時針，
忽跳一格，頓止。
有種放大鏡效果，
時間真是匆匆得鬼鬼祟祟。