List of clocks

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

Africa

Morocco

• Dar al-Magana, waterclock of 1357

Asia

Indonesia

• Jam Gadang

Japan

• Cosmo Clock 21, world's largest clock

Malaysia

• Malay College Kuala Kangsar Clock Tower
• Sultan Abdul Samad Building
• Stadhuys Square
• Jubilee Clock Tower
• Birch Memorial Tower
• Malayan Railway Building

Singapore

• The Chinese High School Clock Tower Building
• Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall

Sri Lanka

• Old Colombo Lighthouse
• Khan Clock Tower
• Koch Memorial Clock Tower

Europe

Czech Republic

• Prague Astronomical Clock

Denmark

• Jens Olsen's World Clock

England

• Big Ben in London. England's most famous clock, 'Big Ben' is actually 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'.
• Eastgate Clock, Chester One of the most photographed clocks in England outside London.
• Royal Liver Building Clock, Liverpool. Britain's largest clock face, and the largest electronically driven clocks in the U.K.
• Salisbury cathedral clock, Salisbury This dial-less clock, still working, is probably the oldest surviving clock mechanism in the world.
• Shepherd gate clock, Greenwich, London This clock heralded the start of standardized time, in the form of Greenwich Mean Time.
• Wells Cathedral clock The dial of this clock displays a model of the universe in miniature. The mechanism, dated at 1392 and still working, is in London's Science Museum.
• Harrison Marine clocks John Harrison created the first reliable marine chronometers. These are housed in the National Maritime Museum Greenwich.
• Corpus Clock, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge A 2008 public clock of highly novel design that cost over 1 Million GBP and had contributions from over 200 people to make.

France

• Strasbourg astronomical clock The current 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, Professor Hans Scheurenbrand has constructed the Harmonices Mundi, a sophisticated astronomical clock, a world time clock, and a 74 bell glockenspiel.
• The Alexanderplatz in Berlin contains the famous 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, about 10 metrs high digits.
• The Rathaus-Glockenspiel (1908), an ornate clock located in Munich's Marienplatz with almost life-sized moving figures that show scenes from a medieval jousting tournament as well as a performance of the famous "Schäfflertanz" (roughly translated "Barrel-makers' dance".

Isle of Man

• 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

Switzerland

• Zytglogge tower, Bern; medieval clock tower.

North America

Canada

• Peace tower, Ottawa

United States

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

Other

• Doomsday Clock by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which symbolizes man's current risk of nuclear war

See also

• List of biggest clock faces