India’s Surat City is famous for its expertise in diamond cutting, but now it may be home to the largest garden clock in the world. <br /><br />The Surat Municipal Corporation commissioned the gigantic clock for the golden jubilee celebrations of the formation of Gujarat state. <br /><br />Only two other clocks in the world—one in Saudi Arabia and one in Turkey—are larger, but they don’t qualify as “time machines in a garden.” <br /><br />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, and as the world’s largest garden clock as well. <br /><br />[Aniket, Surat Resident]: (Hindi, male boy) <br />"I first read about this clock in the newspaper which said here we have world's biggest clock but I did not believe it. I thought it would not be that big but when I insisted on coming here today, my brother brought me here. I saw the size of the clock. I was surprised by the fact that a clock can be that big. I think this clock should be listed in Guinness Book of World Records." <br /><br />It took 13 long years for the complete landscaping of Navin Chandra Mafatlal Garden including the setting up of this huge clock before throwing it open for the general public.
