Time Travel: Clocks Around the World

A collection of clocks from around the world.

On Mexican time in Mascota, Mexico. Mascota, Mexico: Clock and a statue of Jesus in the local churchThe Archway into Rouen with its elaborate, almost unreadable clock. The Archway into Rouen with its elaborate clockThe Gastown clock at night (Vancouver, Canada). The Gastown clock at night (Vancouver, Canada)The clockwork gears in Ghent’s Belltower, Belgium. The clockwork gears in Ghent's Belltower, BelgiumTick Tock art piece in Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, Ireland. Tick Tock Art Piece in Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, IrelandA giant eye clock in Rotterdam, Holland. A Giant Eye Clock in Rotterdam, HollandClock with dancing figures in Laguardia in La Rioja, Spain. Dancing clock in Laguardia in Rioja in northern SpainA decorative clock tower in Cardiff, Wales. A Clock Tower in Cardiff, WalesThe clockface on a Danish grandfather’s clock in the Silkeborg Museum, Denmark. Silkeborg, Denmark: the clockface on a Danish grandfather's clock in the local museumAn old clock still keeping time at Bridgeport Brewing in Portland, Oregon. An old clock still keeping time at Bridgeport Brewing in Portland, OregonPublic clocks are scarce on the ground in Asia. This welcoming drummer on a boat in Halong Bay in Vietnam has international time-keeping clocks in the background. Non of them worked. Welcoming drummer at Halong Bay in VietnamA Dali melted clock sculpture in Singapore. It didn’t work either.Dali clock sculpture in SingaporePerhaps in the east they measure time differently than in the west, like this ancient sundial in the Jaipur Astronomical Park in India.Built in the 1700s by a Mughal prince, it is a collection of large-scale astronomical observatories, instruments and sundials, used for both prediction of eclipses and monsoons as well as astrological events.More of Ryan Photography Challenge for the Week: Time.

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