Astounding Timepieces

A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

Only a few pieces remain of a grand 16th-century water clock that once announced the changing hours with the sound of bells, gongs, and drums.

The world's largest sundial can cast a shadow more than 1,600 feet long.

At the top of the hour, this steam-powered clock's eight brass whistles play "Back Home Again in Indiana."

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

Backwards hour and minute hands and a timing mechanism that fluctuates with the temperature led to this clock tower's local nickname.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.