But there is one clock that is among the most famous in the world: Britain’s Big Ben. It has been getting some repairs and the BBC was nice enough to make a video of the giant mechanism.

By Peter Hummers Poet Kenneth Fearing’s fourth novel “The Big Clock” achieved much popularity and was released as a fine film noir by Paramount in 1948.

The Great Clock of Westminster, widely known as Big Ben - which is actually the name of the bell, will be changed early on Sunday morning. It has been largely silent for five years, after it was ...