Honeymoon Part 2a: Vienna Clock Museum

That's right, CLOCK MUSEUM!!! One of the many amazing things was that a lot of the clocks have been maintained and are still functioning, so every hour a bunch of them go off at once and it is glorious.

LOOK AT ALL THESE AWESOME OLD CLOCKS!!

 The oldest clock in the museum was from the 14th century, and it looks awesome:

Whole thing

Close up

The biggest was the old mechanism from the clock at St. Stephen's (the big old cathedral we saw) in the 1600s:

This is a canopy clock, you would attach it to the poster of your canopy bed, and then you could read it while lying on your back and looking up:

These are really pretty old clocks:

This is an old Japanese sliding clock. The deal is that there were always there same number of hours of day and night, even when day/night were different lengths - so "one hour" of the day during the summer was much longer than "one hour" during the winter. The sliding mechanism allows you to adjust the hour length accordingly:

 These are more awesome old clocks:
A lot of the clocks had astronomical/astrological components to them as well, so they told you not just the time but also things about the solar system:

Astronomical clock...	...closeup of its face
Another astronomical clock...	...and its face as well

There were lots of beautiful grandfather clocks:

Clocks that are part of paintings:

Can you find the clock?

How about this one?

Some extraordinarily elaborate cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest:

There was one crazy old clockmaker's attempt to make a clock that told the date/time according to pretty much every calendar/time-telling system in existence:

This cabinet is taller than me

Closeup of all the faces

Super closeup of one face

Some of the clocks were like elaborate artworks:

My favorites were the ones where you could see all the tiny little gears
Technology is definitely the closest thing Muggles have to magic.