Half Past Hotness: Twelve Historic and Artistic Clocks
Clocks aren’t always our best friends. They move too fast, they move too slow, they remind us that we’re late, or sometimes they prove that our lives are slowly slipping away. Many times clocks don’t exactly deliver good news, but wouldn’t we take the bad news better if the clock were incredibly original and fun? These clocks tell time, but they tell it with style.
St. Mark’s Clock, Venice
Astronomical clocks were popular in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and this one was erected in the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Besides monitoring time, it also shows the position of the sun in the zodiac, the phases of the moon, and the relative positions of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury. A replica sits in the Venetian resort in Las Vegas. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons
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