Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1918 — CLOCK WITH 95 FACES TELLS DIFFERENT TIMES. [ARTICLE]

CLOCK WITH 95 FACES TELLS DIFFERENT TIMES.

Colossal Indicator Vie* With Unique Self-Winding Watch in ’ Glasgow. * Petrograd, Russ la. Petrograd boasts what is in many respects the most wonderful clock in the world. It has ninety-five faces. It indicates simultaneously the time of day at thirty different spots on the earth’s surface, besides the movement of the earth round the sun, the phases of the moon, the signs of the zodiac, the passage over the meridian of more than fifty stars of the northern hemisphere and the date according to the Gregorian, Greek, Mussulman and the Hebrew calendars. The works took two years to put together after the clock had been sent in detached pieces from Switzerland to Russia. A Glassgow watchmaker tells about a watch that was brought to him for repairs and surpassed in Interest all others that he had seen during his forty-two years of business. It was self-winding. The case was that of the regular hunting watch, and every time it was opened It partly wound the watch by the closing of the Hd. Where the lid joined the watch there was a little lever, to the free end of which was joined a scythe shaped rack, which worked into a wheel with rachet shaped teeth. Instead of the ordinary fly spring there was a spring fixed to the plate, and attached by means of a short chain to the lever. As this spring pulled the cover open the teeth of the scythe slipped over the teeth of the winding wheel, and by closing the cover the wheel was partly pulled around. To wiiid it completely the watch had to be opened and closed eight or nine times a day.