Last Sunday at noon I had the good fortune of being in Prague at the Old Town Hall, site of the Prague Astronomical Clock. Given our industry’s short design cycles and equally stunted useful life, ...
A new interactive 3D digital model of Prague’s Astronomical Clock will go on display at the Old Town Hall on Friday. The installation in the Knights’ Hall shows not only the famous exterior dial but ...
An 18th-century Neoclassical clock standing ten feet tall, made by a clockmaker to the French king, may fetch as much as $850,000 at a Paris auction on June 30. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime occasion,” ...
If you visit the Copenhagen City Hall, you’ll see an ornate mechanical clock. By itself, this is unremarkable, of course. There are plenty of ornate clocks in city halls around the world, but this one ...
We’ll admit we are suckers for clock projects, and the more unusual, the better. We liked the look of [Peter Balch’s] astronomical clock, especially since it was handcrafted and was a relatively ...
Through Copenhagen’s ornate Town Hall trooped a steady stream of sightseers last week to look at the workings of the world’s most complex astronomical clock. Set in motion shortly before Christmas by ...