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Jens Olsen’s World Clock

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The front of the World Clock
The clock tells you everything from local time to the dates of religious holidays. Alphalphi~commonswiki
It has 15,448 individual parts. Mart Moppel/CC BY-SA 2.0
The clock was covered with nearly 8 pounds of gold. Furya/CC BY 2.0

As famous clocks go, Jen’s Olsen’s World Clock is a sight to behold.

Sitting pretty in a tower at Copenhagen’s City Hall, this gilded horological masterwork is geared up to calculate global times and dates, and planetary positions with remarkable precision. And, as long as it continues to be wound once every week, it will continue to display this information for the next 2,500 years.

One of the most precise mechanical clocks in the world,…

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