List of clocks

This is a list of clocks that have attained notability because of their historical importance, accuracy, exceptional artistry, architectural value, or size.

Africa

Morocco

Dar al-Magana, water clock completed in 1357
Dar al-Muwaqqit, water clock completed in 1361

Asia

Indonesia

Jam Gadang, clock tower in the city of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Japan

Cosmo Clock 21, the world's largest clock

Malaysia

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Yemen

Big Ben Aden

Europe

Czech Republic

Denmark

Jens Olsen's World Clock

England

Big Ben, London, is England's most famous clock, and arguably the World's. 'Big Ben' is the name of the bell, rather than the clock itself, but most people associate the name with the clock, which is officially known as the 'Great Westminster Clock'.
The Eastgate Clock, Chester is one of the most photographed clocks in England outside London.
The Royal Liver Building Clock, Liverpool is Britain's largest clock face, and the largest electronically driven clocks in the UK.
Salisbury cathedral clock, Salisbury is a dial-less clock. It is still working and probably the oldest surviving clock mechanism in the world.
The Shepherd Gate Clock, Greenwich, London, heralded the start of standardized time, in the form of Greenwich Mean Time.
The Wells Cathedral clock displays a model of the universe in miniature. The mechanism, dated at 1392 and still working, is in London's Science Museum.
The Corpus Clock, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge is a 2008 public clock of novel design.

France

The Strasbourg astronomical clock in the cathedral, completed in 1842, is one of the most complicated mechanical clocks ever made.

Germany

In Esslingen, Germany, at the headquarters of Festo,^[1] Professor Hans Scheurenbrand has constructed the Harmonices Mundi, an astronomical clock, a world time clock, and a 74 bell glockenspiel.
The Alexanderplatz in Berlin contains the World Time clock.
"Die Pyramide" (German article) a skyscraper in Berlin, has what is claimed as the largest clock in Europe. It is a digital clock, with 10 metre high digits.
The Rathaus-Glockenspiel (1908), an ornate clock located in Munich's Marienplatz, has almost life-sized moving figures that show scenes from a medieval jousting tournament as well as a performance of the "Schäfflertanz" ("Barrel-makers' dance").

Isle of Man

The Jubilee clock is a street clock in the Isle of Man capital of Douglas built in 1887 as commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign.

Italy

St Mark's Clock Venice

Russia

Raketa Monumental the world's biggest mechanical clock movement, installed in the great atrium of the Detsky mir shop on Lubyanka Square in Moscow.^[2]^[3]

Switzerland

Zytglogge tower, Bern; a medieval clock tower.

North America

Canada

Peace Tower, Ottawa

United States

Clock of the Long Now, Colorado
Colgate Clock, New Jersey
The Dreger Clock, Buena Park, California is an electrically driven and regulated multi-face town clock, created in Long Beach, CA, it spent 50 years at Knott's Berry Farm and is undergoing restoration by the Buena Park Historical Society
Jessop's Clock, San Diego, California, is a pendulum regulated multi-face town clock commissioned in 1905 by Joseph Jessop, a jewellery store owner in San Diego, California.
The Ohio Clock is an 1815 clock in the United States Capitol
The Town Clock of Dubuque, Iowa is in a downtown clock tower, built in 1864.

Other

The Doomsday Clock by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which symbolizes man's current risk of nuclear war
Experimental Talking Clock, long thought to be the world's oldest playable sound recording

References

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