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When the old man died.” The rest of the story goes that the Jenkins brothers, who managed The George Hotel, bragged that the large floor clock that stood in their lobby, never, ever lost time.

One step up is the $1,300 Burbank, with a moon phase dial, a pendulum the size of a dinner plate and a clearer chime. ... Baldwin, a piano company, began making floor clocks just three years ago.

If you want to know the time, check your watch, cell phone or microwave. If you want to make a timeless statement in your home, check out a fine floor, wall or mantel clock. "To somebody buying a ...

A pendulum from one third-floor clock swings through a large slot cut through the second-floor dining room ceiling. “It’s an amazing, otherworldly place,” neighbor Peter Duvall said.

I’ve got a mechanical movement clock that is accurate to a minute every two weeks. It’s better, or worse, depending upon the temperature, as the wooden pendulum stick moves.

And floor clocks will add elegance to your décor. Half and Half. ... as is the clock’s slender pendulum. The clock is 82.5 inches tall, 23 inches wide and 14 inches deep.

Clocks in Galileo’s era told time only to the nearest quarter hour and allowed only crude rate regulation. The pendulum-regulated clock, first conceived by Galileo and then realized by Christian ...

At 40-feet wide and 2,000 pounds, the ceiling clock at the Lexington Central Public Library is the biggest in the world. A brass Foucault pendulum hangs down 70 feet from the center of the clock.