Adam *'s photos with the keyword: horloge
Clock tower
Midday
Centuries apart
05 Jul 2010 |
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The clock on the nineteenth century Pier Head Building seen from under canopy covering the entrances to the twenty-first century Welsh Assembly Building.
Cardiff, Wales
Torre dos Clerigos
Tower of time
Six o one
Triumphal arch
25 Nov 2009 |
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The triumphal arch at the end of Rua Augusta where it opens out onto the Praca Commercio, Lisbon.
Corpus Christi
09 Oct 2009 |
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This extraordinary clock is on the outside wall of the Taylor Library, part of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge UK. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock
Place Bellecour
03 Jul 2009 |
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Statue of Louis XIV with the bell tower of the old Hôpital de la Charité in the background.
Four o Clock
Timewarp
Present and past
17 May 2009 |
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Shell-Mex House behind the Cleopatra's Needle on the Charing Cross Embankment of the River Thames.
The mortal moment
17 Nov 2008 |
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In the Harem at Topkapi Saray, Istanbul.
Ataturk died at 9.05 am in Istanbul's Dolmabahce Saray. Many historical clocks in Istanbul's museums and monuments are left set at that time in Ataturk's memory.
Note the unusual markings on the clock face and the Turkish words on the small dial above it. The clock was made in London, UK.
" Markwick Markham (recorded 'Behind the Royal Exchange', London) flourished 1725-1805 and specialised in making both musical and ordinary clocks for the Ottoman market and for Russia also. His father, James Markwick Jr. (d. 1730) became Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1692 and his business succeeded that of Samuel Betts, one of the great early clockmaking pioneers. Markwick Jr. became Master in 1720 and went into partnership with his brother-in-law Robert Markham who succeeded him in the business and carried on trading under the name Markwick Markham. The business was so successful that their name became synonymous with this type of clock.
The 'Turkish' or 'Ottoman' market was a lucrative one and embraced most countries of the Near East, extending to Persia. A tortoiseshell musical clock by Markwick Markham is in the Seraglio Palace, Istanbul (Ord-Hume, p.309). Fine examples of ormolu-mounted tortoiseshell musical table clocks by Markwick Markham can be seen in Barder (p.163) and Ord-Hume (p.25). " (from www.grosvenorfair.co.uk/exhibits/print/47644 )
Time and space
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