Petrojn’adl 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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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 61
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80Page 61 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 61
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