List of biggest clock faces
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- Abraj Al Bait TowersAbraj Al Bait TowersThe Abraj Al-Bait Towers, also known as the Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower, is a building complex in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The complex holds several world records, including the tallest hotel in the world, the tallest clock tower in the world, the world's largest clock face, and the world's largest...
clock in MeccaMeccaMecca is a city in the Hijaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level...
, Saudi ArabiaSaudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
, is a 43-metre diameter clock built on this 601-metre hotel tower in front of the Ka'ba. - Cevahir MallCevahir MallIstanbul Cevahir Shopping and Entertainment Centre, opened on 15 October 2005, is a modern shopping and entertainment centre located in the Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey. Called also Şişli Kültür ve Ticaret Merkezi...
clock in IstanbulIstanbulIstanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, a 36 metre clock with 3 metre high digits laid on the transparent roof of the mall, built in 2005. - Duquesne Brewing CompanyDuquesne Brewing CompanyThe Duquesne Brewing Company was a major brewery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from its founding in 1899 until its dissolution in 1972. The brand was revived under the name Duquesne Bottling Company in 2008, in order to re-establish the beer in Western Pennsylvania starting in the summer of...
Clock, Pittsburgh, a single 18 metre octogonal clock built by Audichron of Atlanta, GA, in 1933, with 8.5 metre and 6.4 metre aluminium hands. - Colgate Clock (New Jersey), a 15.2 metre clock Built in 1924 in New Jersey to replace the old Colgate Clock, which was moved to Indiana.
- Flower clock, TehranTehranTehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
, a 15 metre flower clock. It weighs in at 750 kg, and was installed on 7 June 2005. - Allen-Bradley Clock TowerAllen-Bradley Clock TowerThe Rockwell Automation Headquarters is an office building located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.-Clock Tower:The Allen-Bradley Clock Tower, owned by Allen-Bradley, a product brand of Rockwell Automation, has long been a landmark in Milwaukee...
, four 12.25 meters clocks on a 86 metre tower built in 70s, biggest four-faced clock. Each hour hand is 4.8 m long and weighs 220 kg. Each minute hand is 6.1 m long and weighs 240 kg. The hour markings are 1.2 m high. - Colgate Clock (Indiana)Colgate Clock (Indiana)The Colgate Clock, located at a Colgate-Palmolive factory in Clarksville, Indiana, is one of the largest clocks in the world. It has a diameter of 40 feet . It was first illuminated in Clarksville on November 17, 1924...
, 12 metre clock, built in 1906 in New Jersey for the centennial of the Colgate Company. Moved to Indiana in 1924. - The floral clock in Frankfort, KentuckyFloral clock (Frankfort, Kentucky)The floral clock in Frankfort, Kentucky is a landmark located behind the Kentucky State Capitol. Dedicated in May 1961 by Governor Bert T. Combs, the clock was constructed as a joint project between the state government and the Garden Club of Kentucky....
, a 34 feet (10.4 m) face with minute and hour hands that are 20 feet (6.1 m) and 15 feet (4.6 m) long, respectively. The clock face is composed of over 10,000 individual flowers. - The railway station clock of AarauAarauAarau is the capital of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau. The city is also the capital of the district of Aarau. It is German-speaking and predominantly Protestant. Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura...
is 9 meters in diameter. It is the biggest clock face in Europe. It behaves almost completely like a standard Swiss railway station clock. - Clock on the main building of the Moscow State University is 9 metres in diameter. There are also a barometer and a thermometer of the same size.
- St. Peter, ZürichSt. Peter, ZürichSt. Peter is one of the four main churches of the old town of Zurich, besides Grossmünster, Fraumünster and Predigerkirche.Located next to the Lindenhof hill, site of the former Roman castle, it was built on the site of a temple to Iuppiter. An early church of 10 by 7 metres is archaeologically...
, a 8.7 meters clock, built in 1534, the biggest church clock face. - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company TowerMetropolitan Life Insurance Company TowerThe Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, also known as the Metropolitan Life Tower or Met Life Tower, is a landmark skyscraper located on East 23rd Street between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South, off of Madison Square Park. in the borough of Manhattan in New York City...
, 8 meters clocks on all four side of this 213 meters tower built in 1909. Each hours hand weighs 350 kg and each minutes hand weighs 500 kg. - Philadelphia City HallPhiladelphia City HallPhiladelphia City Hall is the house of government for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At , including the statue, it is the world's second-tallest masonry building, only shorter than Mole Antonelliana in Turin...
, 7.9 meters clocks on all four sides of the metal portion of this 167 meters tower built in 1901. - Royal Liver Building clockRoyal Liver BuildingThe Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building located in Liverpool, England. It is sited at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront...
, Liverpool, four 7.6 meters clocks on two 90 meters towers, three on the riverside tower and one on the landward tower, built in 1911. - Emerson Bromo-Seltzer TowerEmerson Bromo-Seltzer TowerThe Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower was erected in 1911 at the corner of Eutaw and Lombard Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. It was designed by Joseph Evans Sperry and was constructed by Bromo-Seltzer inventor "Captain" Isaac E. Emerson. It was the tallest building in Baltimore from 1911 until 1923...
, Baltimore, Maryland, four 7.3 meters clocks on a 88 meters tower built in 1911. The largest four dial gravity clock in the world. - Shell Mex HouseShell Mex HouseShell Mex House is situated at number 80, Strand, London, UK. The current building was built in 1930-31 on the site of the Hotel Cecil and stands behind the original facade of the Hotel and between the Adelphi and the Savoy Hotel. Broadly Art Deco in style, it was designed by the architectural...
, The Strand, London 7.018 meters on a 12 story Thames side building built in 1930 on the site of the Cecil Hotel. - Minneapolis City HallMinneapolis City HallMinneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse , designed by Long and Kees in 1888, is the main building used by the city government of Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as by Hennepin County, Minnesota...
, 7.0 meter clocks on four sides with chimes on the quarter, half, and full hour. 345 feet (105.2 m) tower. Largest four-faced chiming clock. - Big Ben, London, 6.9 meters clocks on all four side of this 96 meters tower built in 1859.
- Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland, four 6.2 meters clocks were in 2000 on this 237 meters tower built in 1955. The world's second-tallest clock tower.
- Kremlin clockKremlin clockThe Kremlin Clock is a historic clock on the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin. The clock dial is above the main gates to Red Square. For decades, the chimes have rung on the quarter hour, with bells tolling for each full hour.- Old clock :...
, Moscow, 6.12 meters chiming clock on all four sides of the Spasskaya TowerSpasskaya TowerThe Spasskaya Tower is the main tower with a through-passage on the eastern wall of the Moscow Kremlin, which overlooks the Red Square.The Spasskaya Tower was built in 1491 by an Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari. Initially, it was named the Frolovskaya Tower after the Church of Frol and...
of Moscow KremlinMoscow KremlinThe Moscow Kremlin , sometimes referred to as simply The Kremlin, is a historic fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River , Saint Basil's Cathedral and Red Square and the Alexander Garden...
. First clock on the Spasskaya Tower was installed in 16th century; current (fully mechanical) mechanism dates back to 1851. - Old City HallOld City Hall (Toronto)Toronto's Old City Hall was home to its city council from 1899 to 1966 and remains one of the city's most prominent structures. The building is located at the corner of Queen and Bay Streets, across Bay Street from Nathan Phillips Square and the new City Hall in the centre of downtown Toronto...
, Toronto, four 6 meter clocks with chimes every quarter hour on a 103.6 meter tower. Part of Toronto's third city hall (1899), it serves as a terminating vistaTerminating vistaIn urban design, a terminating vista is a building or monument that stands at the end or in the middle of a road, so that when one is looking up the street the view ends with the site....
for Bay StreetBay StreetBay Street, originally known as Bear Street, is a major thoroughfare in Downtown Toronto. It is the centre of Toronto's Financial District and is often used by metonymy to refer to Canada's financial industry since succeeding Montreal's St. James Street in that role in the 1970s...
, and it was first rung at midnight, 1 January 1900.