Tourist attraction
L'Horloge Fleurie
Living floral dial replanted four times a year, with the world's longest working second hand.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Geneva's Flower Clock in the Jardin Anglais starts with a discrepancy: official counts of its flowering plants don't even agree with each other. It walks through the engineering hidden under the blossoms, the record-setting claims once made about its size, and the day in 1955 when the clock was first planted to honor the city's watchmaking trade. You'll hear how the dial is replanted with every change of season, and how satellite timekeeping keeps a decades-old flowerbed in sync with clocks in orbit. Look for the second hand sweeping past whatever happens to be blooming this month.
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