CLOCK WITH NINETYFIVE DIALS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3252, 4 September 1917, Page 2

CLOCK WITH NINETYFIVE DIALS.

Petrograd boasts what u in many respects the most wonderful clock in the world. Its magnificence may he imagined from the fact of this colossal timepiece having no fewer than ninetyfive faces. It indicates simultaneously the time of day at thirty d'll'erent spots on the earth's surface, besides the movement of the earth round the sua, the phases of the moon, the feigns of the zodiac, the passage over the meridian of more than fifty stars of the northern hemi-phere. and the date according to the Gregorian, Greek, Mussulman. and Hebrew calendars. The works io;.k two years to put together n'ter the (lock had been sent in detailed pieces from Switzerland to Rus-

A Glasgow v. at' hmaker told recently about a wat-ch that was brought to him for repairs and surpassed in interest all others that he had seen during his forty-two years of business. It was self-winding. Tile case was that of the regular hunting watch, and every time it was opened it partly wound the by the closing of the lid. Where the lid joined the watch there was a little lever, to the free end of which was j silled a so".'the-shaped rack, which worked into a. wheel with ratchetshaped teeth. Instead of the ordinary flyspring there v, as a spring fixed to the pint a. and attai lied by means of a .short cluJin to tin' lever. As tliu spring pulled the cover open the teeth of the 'scythe slipped OVel' the teeth of the v iudiiig wheel, and by closing the cover the wheel was partly pulled round. To wind it completely the watch had to be opened eight el' nine times a day.