China becomes new host to World’s largest mechanical clock

The world’s largest mechanical clock built by Smith of Derby is enroute to a new destination - Ganzhou, a city in southeast China. The clock which measures 113-metre high with a giant dial measuring 13 meters (it has four) in diameter is being installed at the Ganzhou’s Harmony Park, now please don’t ask how they workers are doing this. The £1m project this is a work in progress which should complete with the mammoth clock’s tower and viewing galleries completion sometime by next year. The hands (7.8 meters long) of the clock are made in carbon fiber (to keep them light in weight of course) by EPM Technology, a Derby firm that creates carbon fibre panels for F1 cars. The clock, accurate to 30 seconds a month, courtesy GPS technology to autocorrect, is scheduled to be unveiled at the end of the month. We learn that this mechanical clock comes with a 100-year guarantee, so we have an entire lifetime to go see it once, but that doesn’t mean you start wasting time now.

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Via: Guardian