The world's largest clock: tower, flower, wristwatch

We look at them, getting up in the morning from the bed, we look for them with our eyes, going to work, they are the companions of our daily life, without which we can not do. Who are they? The answer is simple and arises by itself - ordinary hours.

The biggest clock tower

The largest among the existing hours are in the center of the holy Muslim land, namely in the city of Mecca. A grandiose in scope construction is a complex of seven towers, the central of which is built four clockwork, located strictly on the sides of the world. The diameter of each of them is 46 meters.

Weigh this monstrous mechanism of about 36 thousand tons, to decorate the dials took a little less than 100 million pieces of mosaic.

Largest flower dial

The world's largest clock, created from flowers, adorns the Heroes Park in the Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog. For the implementation of such a grand idea it took about 22,000 plants, but how else, because the diameter of this live fragrant dial is as much as 22 meters!

These flower clocks appeared relatively recently, in 2011 within the framework of the program "A city without suburbs." At night, the mechanism is illuminated with colored lights, in winter is covered with artificial needles. For 6 years, these watches have become the visiting card of the city, they are appointed by enamored people near them, and they are also led to excursions of tourists.

Wrist Watches-Giants

The well-known company Diesel, distinguished by its brutality in its collections, has developed the world's largest watch, which can be worn on the hand, - Diesel Grand Daddy.

This chronograph with 4 dials with a diameter of 65 mm and a thickness of 15 mm. The mechanism reliably protects the mineral glass, which is difficult to scratch, the body is made of stainless steel. This accessory weighs a lot, not a little, 490 g. These are the biggest watches in the world that are incredibly popular and bring fabulous profits to the manufacturer.

Famous hours of the world

Each country has its own special clock, the existence of which is known beyond its borders. It's hard to imagine at least one Russian who does not know how the battle of the chimes sounds. The whole country freezes on New Year's Eve with a glass of champagne in hand, when they count the last seconds of the outgoing year.

The history of this watch dates back to the distant 1491. For such a long century, the chimes have seen everything: numerous failures, artillery shelling, fires. Although they long ago lost the title of "the biggest clock," there are few people in the world who do not know about the clock on the Kremlin's Spassky Tower , in the heart of the Russian land.

In London, the building of the English Parliament in Westminster is decorated with equally famous watches - Big Ben. The year of the creation of this symbol of the Foggy Albion is 1859, the clockwork is the most reliable and reliable in those times.

The clock on the tower of Big Ben is due to the construction chief Benjamin Holou. So nicknamed a huge 2-meter bell, which is in the center of the open area and to which leads a narrow spiral staircase in as many as 334 steps. Ordinary mortals, for obvious reasons, do not allow this watch citadel.

Germany also did not stay aloof from the rest. At its famous Alexanderplatz square, the World Clock is adorned - amazing both externally and with its history and symbolism. A huge cylinder 10 meters high with 24 plates on which the names of the socialist countries were written appeared in front of the public in 1989, the day the Berlin Wall collapsed. Above, this structure is decorated with a composition of the orbits of the planets, but the most memorable in these hours is the inscription saying "Time will destroy all the walls."

Indeed, time puts everything in its place, it flows continuously, whether we like it or not. The epochs, rulers are changing, the states are blown off the face of the Earth, and the hours you know yourself go by measuring this inexorable run as impartial witnesses of our vain life.