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2. List of largest clock faces - Wikipedia

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   Largest clock face in Italy and one of the largest astronomical clock faces in the world. The minute hand is 4.91 m (16.1 ft) and the hour hand is 3.65 m (12.0 ft) 3.65 m. The Clock tower is 132 m (433 ft) Minute hands are 5.2 m (17 ft) and the hour hands are 4.06 m (13.3 ft). Tower 213.4 m (700 ft) tall.

3. Simon Willard - Wikipedia

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   Distinctively for Willard's workshop, above the clock's top fretwork, three pedestals were, on which two spherical finials and a large bird figure were mounted. In addition, like Aaron, Simon built a glass dial door, whose top had a half arch shape. Onto the dial, Boston painters painted different motifs. Also, with few extra mechanism, amusing ...

4. List of clock manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   German clockmakers. Johann Baptist Beha (1815–1898) Gustav Becker Clock Company; Freiburg in Schlesien, Silesia (1850–1938) Florn. Thomas Haller (Thomas Haller AG), Schwenningen (1880-1900) then merged with Junghans. Thomas Ernst Haller (Haller AG), Schwenningen (1902-1928) then merged with Kienzle.

5. List of largest cuckoo clocks - Wikipedia

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   The world's largest cuckoo clock since 1997, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Schonachbach (Triberg, Germany). Several unusually large cuckoo clocks have been built and installed in different cities of the world with the aim of attracting visitors, as part of publicity of a cuckoo clock shop, or to serve as a landmark for the community and town.

6. Verge escapement - Wikipedia

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   Verge and foliot escapement from De Vick tower clock, built in Paris, 1379, by Henri de Vick. The verge (or crown wheel) escapement is the earliest known type of mechanical escapement, the mechanism in a mechanical clock that controls its rate by allowing the gear train to advance at regular intervals or 'ticks'.

7. List of clocks - Wikipedia

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   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 Town Clock of Dubuque, Iowa is in a downtown clock tower, built in 1864. The Clock of the Nations, Rochester, New York was located at the Midtown Plaza in the 1960s.