Gujrat’s Surat has world’s largest garden clock(VIDEO)

-The Surat Municipal Corporation commissioned the gigantic clock at Navin Chandra Mafatlal garden here for the golden jubilee celebrations of the formation of Gujarat state.

-It took 13 long years for the complete landscaping of this Garden including the setting up of this huge clock before throwing it open for the general public.

-The biggest clock of the world is in Saudi Arabia, measuring 40 metres, and the other one at Istanbul in Turkey measuring around 36 metres. The Surat clock may make it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the third largest clock in the world with a diameter around 80 feet(24 meter).

The Surat clock could become the world’s largest garden clock as well. Presently 15 meter diameter clock in Tehran(Iran) is considered as world’s largest flower clock.

-As for the other two clocks, which are larger than the one at Surat, are not primarily ‘time machines in a garden’ as such attempts are on to endorse it as the largest garden clock in the world and enlist it in the Guinness Book of World Records.

-The cost of assembling this huge clock has been in the range of rupees 21 lakh (2.1 million rupees or 46,750 US dollars) and the machine weighs about 4000 kilograms. The time is connected with the GPS (Global Positioning System).