Comayagua cathedral clock

[1][2] The gears were presumably made and assembled by the Spanish moors in Al-Andalus during the Almoravid Empire period around the year 1100 during the reign of Yusuf ibn Tashfin.

[citation needed] Before being transferred to the Americas, according to the chronicles before it landed to American soil it was working on the Arab palace of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.

[3][4] During 2007 it was subjected to a restoration process by the Municipal Mayor's Office, the National Congress of Honduras, the Comayagüense Cultural Committee and the supervision of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, for which the master watchmaker Rodolfo Antonio Cerón Martínez from Guatemala was located, who after five months of hard work concluded his work on December 20, 2007.

[6] However, the debate about its antiquity is still current, as some historians have said that the clock cannot be of the age attributed to it since there are no specific historical records that confirm that at the end of the 11th century and the beginning of the 12th century Mechanisms to measure time based on gears were common, since most clocks of the time were made of sand or water.

However, those who support the theory that it actually belongs to the 11th century mention the study that was carried out by researchers where it was discovered that the way it was made was based on the wrought iron technique, a much older technique than that with which the Salisbury clock was made, in addition to finding some inscriptions on one of the gears that say "Espana 1100" which gives greater support to the possibility that it is from the period that is assigned.