Clocks · Astronomical tower clock
Prague Astronomical Clock (Orloj)
DocumentedEditorial status
The oldest astronomical clock still operating, with astrolabe dial, calendar dial and apostle automata (added 17th–19th c.).
- Maker / attribution
- Mikuláš of Kadaň, with Jan Šindel
- Attribution as recorded
- Mikuláš of Kadaň, with Jan Šindel
- Country of origin
- Bohemia (Czech Republic)
- Place of manufacture
- Old Town Hall, Prague
- Date
- 1410
- Historical period
- Renaissance Horology
- Movement
- Weight-driven, many later restorations
- Escapement
- Not applicable / undocumented
- Winding / power
- Weight-driven (now electrically wound)
- Case / materials
- Stone tower, painted dials
- Dimensions
- Monumental
- Holding / location
- City of Prague (in situ)
Mechanisms in this object
- No mechanism records linked yet.
Related reading
- Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers, F. J. Britten (1899 (first edition))
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