The clock is one of the most important attractions in any city. They can be located on a tower or on a wall, and usually many legends are associated with the oldest clock in the city. Some of the watches are especially famous, people from all over the world come just to see them.
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Big Ben - this London watch can rightfully be considered the most famous in the whole world. They are located on the tower of St. Stephen, which belongs to the Palace of Westminster, also a famous building. The clock was installed in 1859. In Russia, many schoolchildren could see them in their English textbooks. Big Ben is one of the symbols of England. There are 4 dials on the tower: since it is square in cross-section, the clock is located on each side. No one knows exactly why the watch got such a name, but there are two legends about this. Perhaps Ben is the name of the construction manager for the creation of the watch (his name was Benjamin Hall), but it may also be that the watch was named after Benjamin Count, a very popular boxer at that time, after whom the largest of the existing was also named then the bells. Interestingly, Big Ben is a very accurate watch. Their mechanism weighs 5 tons, but when the needle starts to lag behind, they regulate it with a penny coin: they put it on the pendulum, and it accelerates by 2.5 seconds.
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The chimes in the Kremlin are another very famous clock. To watch them strike midnight, a lot of people come to Russia, the chimes on New Year's Eve are especially popular. The Kremlin clock is located on the Spasskaya Tower. They were installed in 1851. Like Big Ben, the Kremlin clock is located on each of the four sides of the rectangular tower. The weight of the pendulum is 32 kg and its length reaches one and a half meters. The clock strikes every hour, then one large bell rings, and every quarter of an hour, 9 small bells are chimed. Once the Kremlin chimes played music, but during the revolution they were hit by a shell, and they stood for a whole year. Later, the watch was reassembled, changing the melody, and in 1935 it was decided to abandon the musical mechanism, which was then removed.
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The Orloj astronomical clock at the Old Town Hall in the Czech Republic is another famous clock. They were created in 1410 and since then they delight both citizens and tourists. It was decided to place them for the simple reason that trade was constantly conducted on Starometstkaya Square, and the inhabitants were so fond of it that they were often late for Mass. That is why the watch has such an unusual mechanism. The skeleton, meaning death, tugs the bell every hour, then the Miser rings with coins, and the Proud Man admires the mirror, the door opens, and the 12 apostles pass by. One of the creepy urban legends is associated with the clock, according to which the master, who repaired it in 1490, had his eyes gouged out so that he could never repeat the mechanism.
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The Greenwich Clock, located at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in London, symbolizes time itself, and not only for England, but for the whole world. It is they who count the first time zone, and all time shifts are calculated in Greenwich Mean Time. The watch has a very small size, only 92 cm. This is quite a bit when compared with their previous giants. The Greenwich clock was created in 1852. They are located at the gates of the Royal Observatory.
