List of largest clock faces

Comparison of some notable four-face clocks at the same scale.
Top-left: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
Bottom-left: Allen-Bradley Clock Tower (previous record holder)
Middle: Abraj Al Bait
Top-right: Palace of Westminster clock tower
Bottom-right: Kremlin Clock
Makkah Clock on top of Royal tower (Makkah, Saudi Arabia)
St. Peter church in Zürich (Switzerland)
Aarau railway station clock
The big clock on top of Moni Lazariston building (Greece-Salonica)
Wrigley Building clock, Chicago

This is a list of the largest clock faces in the world. Currently, the largest clock face in the world is the clock on the 601-metre tall Abraj Al Bait Towers, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is 43 metres in diameter. ( these numbers contradict the linked article)

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