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  2. St Mark's Clock - Wikipedia

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    In 1752 Bartolomeo Ferracina started work on replacing the clock, having successfully tendered for the job in public competition. He installed a new movement, removed the planetary dials, installed a rotating moon ball to show the phase, and changed the numbering of the clock face from the old Italian style (I to XXIIII in Roman numerals) to the 12-hour style, using two sets of Arabic numerals ...

  3. Clock face - Wikipedia

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    Longcase clocks (grandfather clocks) typically use Roman numerals for the hours. Clocks using only Arabic numerals first began to appear in the mid-18th century. [citation needed] The clock face is so familiar that the numbers are often omitted and replaced with unlabeled graduations (marks), particularly in the case of watches. Occasionally ...

  4. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    A clock face with the Roman numerals typical for clocks, in Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany While subtractive notation for 4, 40 and 400 ( IV , XL and CD ) has been the usual form since Roman times, additive notation to represent these numbers ( IIII , XXXX and CCCC ) [ 9 ] continued to be used, including in compound numbers like 24 ( XXIIII ), [ 10 ...

  5. Winterhalder & Hofmeier - Wikipedia

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    Clocks from Winterhalder & Hofmeier are mechanical precision clocks with the quality standards of Black Forest craftsmanship. [4] [5] The numbers of the dial face are in Roman numerals. The dial face is embraced by wood. [6] The clocks can be identified by the engraved W & H SCH initial letters. Most of the clocks were made from 1850 to 1933.

  6. St Mark's Clocktower - Wikipedia

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    The Clock Tower in Venice is an early Renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco, at the entrance to the Merceria. It comprises a tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie. Both the tower and the clock date from the last decade of the 15th century ...

  7. List of largest clock faces - Wikipedia

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    A list of permanent working clocks with the largest faces in the world. Entries include all clocks with faces at least 4 m (13 ft) in diameter. Clocks can be located on the exterior or interior of buildings, and towers as well as on the ground as is the case with floral clock faces.

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