From that launched in the centuries, as after long observations of the head of the heavenly, the man was thinking, stuck in the sand stick, start to measure the clock on the shadow discarded by this instrument, passed the Millennium. Since then, the design of devices designed to reflue the time has undergone a lot of changes - there is a function of the clock in any electronic gadget, and the conservatives will easily choose a suitable compact accessory on the wrist.
However, despite the centuries of progress and the desire to minimize the dimensions, and in 2020 there are still hourly units, whose sizes are able to hit the imagination, - this time the editorial office will tell 24cmi where the biggest hours are in the world and what they are unusual .
10. Clock on the Tower of Moscow State University
The 4th huge 9-meter dials are decorated with the towers of the Moscow State University, located on the 10th place of the rating "Big Watches on Planet". M. Lomonosov. The length of minute and hour shooter is 4.13 m and 3.77 m, respectively. These "functions" are even more Kremlin Chorants, who are considered an important symbol along with the Red Square and the Metropolitan Kremlin. And they are superior to the diameter on 2 m legendary Big Ben, adorning the watch tower of the Westminster Palace in London.The design of the MSU installed on the main tower in 1953 initially occupied 6 floors and operated with the help of a pendulum and a complex winch system and Girus. But after 4 years, it was abandoned from such a concept, replacing the drive to electric. The updated electronic filling of the main university watches, the only serious restoration of which was carried out only in 2000, allows them to automatically "bring the arrows" by the relay network signals. Moreover, they are controlled by a single network of 1.5 thousand devices posted in the audiences of the educational institution.
9. Floral clock on Poklonnaya Mount
The tower university clocks mentioned above remained the most large in Moscow and the country exactly until the 11-meter flower dial was built on the Poklonnaya Mount. Every year, his mechanism, decorated with 15 thousand fragrant plants, is given by the memorial complex employees to the May holidays. Also, the 20-meter inscription "Moscow" is also made in the form of flower beds.
The dial on Poklonnaya Mount is listed in the book of Records of Russia. His minute-time arrow, weighing 30 kg, in length reaches 4.5 m. Moreover, it is easy to know the time with these clocks even at night - the numbers in the dark are highlighted, and a special fluorescent coating is applied on the arrows. During the work season, the appearance of the device on Poklonnaya Mount changes - plant floral seedlings, corresponding to the time of year. After upgrading in 2006, the mechanism is evaluated using a satellite with which it is associated via GPS. This makes the clock not only among the largest in Europe, but also one of the most accurate in the world.
8. Watch Colgate from Indiana
Continuing the top of the largest clock on the planet in the American city of Clarksville Indiana dial. It is installed on the building of the former factory of the international company COLGATE-Palmolive, specializing in the manufacture of hygiene, household chemicals and animal feed. The mentioned mechanism is a representative of the 2 COLGATE clock. The size of this, older, version in diameter is 12.19 m.Created in 1906 by the century of anniversary from the day of the company's foundation, the clock 18 years old decorated the building of the company's headquarters, but were subsequently replaced by a new model and sent to Clarksville. Display time on this device Residents of the American city could from a distance exceeding the whole mile - the dial is visible even from the neighboring state of Kentucky.
7. Clock in Grozny
The seventh place in the top of the "biggest clock on the planet" again went to the "applicant" from Russia. We are talking about the 2 round dials adorning the Olymp skyscraper in a 150-meters altitude, which is part of the complex "Grozny City" in the capital of the Chechen Republic.
The mechanism of the device that has 5 tons is designed in Germany. Dials with a diameter of 14 m look at the north and south and visible from anywhere in the city. The clock began its work in 2011, upon completion of the first stage of the construction of the complex. In 2013, the southern dial burned down during a fire, but was subsequently restored.
6. Floral clock in Tehran
The diameter of 15 m makes it possible to confidently take the 6th position in 2005 in 2005 in the capital of Iran. And after in August 2019 in the capital of Ukraine, the dismantling of the "competitor" on the streets of Heavenly Hundreds (formerly Institution), now, is also the 3rd floral dial in size on the continent.
The length of the minute arrows of an impressive unit reaches 7.5 m. The design weighing 750 kg, at the base of which the 70-ton pedestal is laid, located at the intersection of large motorways - chemmat and modars. Therefore, it is available for Furnishing even transit travelers. But the main feature of Tehran watches is a powerful engine that makes the mechanism work, regardless of the time of day and weather.
5. Clock COLGATE from Jersey City
Clarksville Clarksville in 1924, the clock of the COLGATE-PALMOLIVE concern building is still larger - its diameter was 15.24 m. The length of the minute arrows of this Mahina, which was not at the time of creating analogues in the world - 7.87 m, hour - 6.1 m. The shape of the dial is an octagon, like soap, once produced by the company.Until 1985, the clock with the clutch is located next to the inscription, the size of the letters in which is equal to the length of the short arrow, decorated the roof of the factory. Then the building went under demolition, and the design was lowered almost to the ground level and moved almost half a kilometer to the side. At the current time, the dial is renovated and equipped with an LED backlit with an inscription COLGATE, which is noticeably lost in size, is in a hundred meters from the 30 Hudson Street built in 2004.
4. Flower Klumba Krivoy Rog
For those who are curious in which city are the Botanical Watch second in Eurasia, the answer will be such - in the city of Krivoy Rog, located in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. The largest dial in Europe was built in 2011 to the 20th anniversary of the independence of the country. The length of the clock and minute shooter is 8 and 12.5 m, respectively.
Unfortunately, the city authorities often forget about the need to follow the condition of flower beds. Why the floral watch, on the reviews of the locals, in the summer months constantly burn out and lose its original beauty. Yes, and in reliability, the mechanism will also not "blame" - the main function of the device, refusing to periodically show the right time, does not fulfill.
3. Floral clock in susta
The largest floral dial on the planet, part-time being also 3rd in terms of the clockwork of the world, is located in the Indian state of Gujarat, in the city of Surat. The diameter of the measuring time of the design is 24 m, and the massive hour arrow weighs the whole ton.A quarter of a design area, combining the working mechanism and a flower bed, occupies a massive reinforced concrete plate. The clock was built on a 23-acre plot belonging to Navin Fluorine.
2. Clock on the roof of the shopping center "Jewahir" in Istanbul
The second place in the category "The Higher Clock" occupies a dial located on the glass roof of the Istanbul shopping center "Jewahir". The diameter of the giant design, the crowned building of the Turkish shopping center, which is among the most huge in the world, is 36 m, and the size of the digits is 3 m.
Placed on the top of a 6-storey building built in 2005, designed by the architect of Minor Yamasaka, the largest hours in the country are visible from afar. Their impressive design was created specifically in order to exceed the size of the Tehran dial, which was also launched in 2005.
1. Watches of the Abraj Al-Bate complex in Mecca
The leading position in the size of the current time occupy the clock with four 43-meter dials placed on the top of the royal tower in the Mecca complex of high-altitude buildings "Abraj Al-Bate". The highest building in Saudi Arabia, located near the Al-Haram Mosque, decorates the installed at an altitude of 400 m with an arrow with a length of 17 m and 22 m.The appearance of the design illuminated by 2 million LEDs, the developers copied from Big Ben located in London. The dials are decorated with a mosaic that has a total of 98 million elements - time on them with clear weather is possible to see from a distance of 30 km. For the first time, the clock was launched in 2010, timed this event to the celebration of the first day of the sacred for the followers of the Islam of the month of Ramadan.
This is curious
1. The Czech Orel (chimes), which is in Prague, built in 1410, cannot boast of grand sizes. But these are the world's oldest tower clock with an astronomical dial that are in working condition.
2. The largest clock on the planet with a cuckoo can be seen in the German Black Forest, close to the city of Triberg. In this design with a 8-meter 100-kilogram pendulum "sits" cuckoo with a size of 4.6 m and weighing 150 kg.
3. In 2016, Scania, specializing in the manufacture of trucks, built a device with a diameter of 300 m in the airfield. In it, 14 trucks were involved in it as a second, minute and clockwise arrows. To implement ideas, it took the help of 90 drivers with each other. Clock with a total area of 70 thousand square meters. m, created within the framework of an advertising campaign, worked throughout the day.
4. "The greatest chronometer in the world" with an area of dial 8.42 square meters. The KM was created by Jim Bowers in 2011 specifically for the annual Burning MAN festival, held in the American Black Rock desert in the north-west Nevada. To implement the idea, granite pyramids were used, placed in a circle, and a laser installation, simulating the movement of the arrows.