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August 28, 2025 - "The Victorian Gothic-style Clock Tower is an icon of the old Cape Town harbour. It was the original Port Captain's Office built in 1882. The pointed Gothic windows surrounds the structure with a clock, imported from Edinburgh, as a main feature. The red walls are the same colour as they were in the 1800's, having been carefully matched to scrapings of the original paint.
On the second floor there is a decorative mirror room which allowed the captain an overall view of harbour activities.
On the ground floor is a tidal gauge mechanism which was used to check the level of the tide for ships entering or leaving the docks.
The Clock Tower has begun to lean to one side, about 50 mm. This has since been arrested.
The tower has been a focal point in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront's urban renewal."
Previous description: www.cape-town-heritage.co.za/heritage-site/clock-tower.html
Actually, it was not twelve o'clock. The mother clock that synchronizes all clocks in the building was undergoing maintainance and the default during maintainance is "noon".
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The original City Bell Tower was built in 1444, aligned to the centre of the Placa street. After the earthquake in 1667, the Bell tower started leaning in the manner of the leaning tower of Pisa and in 1929 it was deemed to be unsafe and was demolished only to be replaced by a new Bell Tower built according to the same design.
To honor the memory of Sara Winchester, the clocks in The Winchester Mystery House have been set to1:00 PM - 1300 Military Time.
The clocks of Leeds Civic Hall (foreground) and Town Hall (background), with Leeds' emblom, the golden owl lit up in the middle
The clock was constructed between 1464–1470 by Hans Düringer, Its complex dials show the time and date, phases of the moon, the position of the moon and sun in relation to the zodiac signs, and the calendar of saints. Adam and Eve ring the bell on the hour, and at noon a procession appears that features Adam and Eve alongside the Three Kings, the Apostles, and Death.
Standing 14 metres high, upon completion the clock was the largest in the world, It still might hold this record.
The clock was dismantled and hidden during WWII and hidden from the Germans. After severe damage in the Second World War it was reconstructed after 1945.