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  2. Clock face - Wikipedia

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    Clock face. A wall clock showing the time at 10:09. A clock face is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays time through the use of a flat dial with reference marks, and revolving pointers turning on concentric shafts at the center, called hands. In its most basic, globally recognized form, the periphery of the dial is numbered 1 ...

  3. List of largest clock faces - Wikipedia

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    Largest clock face in Italy and one of the largest astronomical clock faces in the world. The minute hand is 4.91 m (16.1 ft) and the hour hand is 3.65 m (12.0 ft) 3.65 m. The Clock tower is 132 m (433 ft) Minute hands are 5.2 m (17 ft) and the hour hands are 4.06 m (13.3 ft). Tower 213.4 m (700 ft) tall.

  4. Zytglogge - Wikipedia

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    The Zytglogge(Bernese German:[ˈtsiˌkːlɔkːə]; lit. 'time bell') is a landmarkmedievaltowerin Bern, Switzerland. Built in the early 13th century, it has served the city as a guard tower, prison, clock tower, centre of urban life and civic memorial. Despite the many redecorations and renovations it has undergone in its 800 years of existence ...

  5. Escapement - Wikipedia

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    Escapement. Animation of anchor escapement, widely used in pendulum clocks. An escapement is a mechanical linkage in mechanical watches and clocks that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing the clock's hands. The impulse action transfers energy to the clock's timekeeping ...

  6. Corpus Clock - Wikipedia

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    The clock's face is a rippling 24-carat gold-plated stainless steel disc, about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in diameter. It has no hands or numerals, but displays the time by opening individual slits in the clock face backlit with blue LEDs; these slits are arranged in three concentric rings displaying hours, minutes, and seconds. Video

  7. Verge escapement - Wikipedia

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    Verge and foliot escapement from De Vick tower clock, built in Paris, 1379, by Henri de Vick. The verge (or crown wheel) escapement is the earliest known type of mechanical escapement, the mechanism in a mechanical clock that controls its rate by allowing the gear train to advance at regular intervals or 'ticks'.

  8. The Persistence of Memory - Wikipedia

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    The orange clock at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants. Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol of decay. [10] [11] Another insect that is present in the painting is a fly, which sits on the watch that is next to the orange watch. The fly appears to be casting a human shadow as the sun hits it.

  9. Snapchat now lets you turn your face into an animated sticker

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    The app is launching Cameos Stickers, a new feature that lets you decorate your snaps with animated stickers of your face. Snapchat introduced the original version of Cameos in December. One of ...