Petrograd contains the most wonderful clock in the world. There are 95 faces to this colossal timepiece, which indicates simultaneously the time of day at 30 different places, besides the movement of the earth around the sun, the phases of the moon, the signs of the zodiac, and the date according to the Gregorian, Greek. Mussulman, and Hebrew calendars. The works took two years to put together after the clock had been sent in detached pieces from .Switzerland to Russia,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)
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80Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)
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