Strasbourg astronomical clock

[1] Its main features, besides the automata, are a perpetual calendar (including a computus), an orrery (planetary dial), a display of the real position of the Sun and the Moon, and solar and lunar eclipses.

The main attraction is the procession of the 18-inch high figures of Christ and the Apostles, which occurs every day at solar noon, while the life-size clock crows thrice.

[4] It was used as part of the second clock before being put on display at the Strasbourg Museum for Decorative Arts in the Palais du Rohan.

In the top compartment at noon, to the sound of a small carillon, the Three Kings bowed before the figure of The Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.

The entire structure was dismantled in 1572–4 when the second and even more ambitious clock was mounted on the opposite wall of the south transept.

[6] Construction of the clock resumed under the direction of Conrad Dasypodius, a pupil of and successor to Herlin who had since passed away.

The Stimmers painted large panels that depicted the three Fates, Urania, Colossus, Nicolaus Copernicus, and various sacred themes, including the Creation, the resurrection of the Dead, the last judgment, and the rewards of virtue and vice.

At the base of a clock there was an 86 cm (34") diameter celestial globe, accompanied by the figure of a pelican.

The clock features a planetary calendar, which shows the current positions of the sun and moon, and a mechanical rooster.

In 1887, a 25-year-old Sydney watchmaker named Richard Smith built a working model of the third clock in the scale 1:5.