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The team enters the project with a high-rise building already under construction, a tower not designed to support a 150-meter-high clock tower and a strict weight limit of 82,000 tons.

Together with its partners, the architecture firm SL Rasch in Germany faces some unusual challenges. By night over two million LEDs illuminate the tower clock making it legible from distances of over eight kilometers.The documentary The Mecca Clock Tower explores the engineering breakthroughs behind the development, fabrication and installation of this unique timepiece. There are many other magnificent clock towers around the world. At 601m., it is the tallest clock tower in the world, as well as the world’s largest clock face. Put together it is an engineering masterpiece, 35 times larger than Big Ben and adorned in over 98 million glass mosaic tiles with 24-carat gold leaf. They are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project. Overtaken in height by today’s great towers, it nevertheless remains unique. The building at the center of the sacred site breaks over 30 world records its giant clock face is 43 meters in size, the minute hand measures 23 meters in length and the clock drives weigh 21 tons a piece. It was the tallest tower in the world at the time of its construction and has been imitated in various places around the world.

It is a construction project full of superlatives: the worlds largest tower clock in Mecca, the Holy City of Islam.

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