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Who winds up Big Ben's clock over the Houses of Parliament?

And how accurate a timepiece is it?

    



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Sad Roman
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_Tower%2C_Palace_of_Westminster


Arcadia
It doesn't need winding up..its run by electricity these days. And its accurate to within


nowhereman
i believe it has two AA size batteries


Mark J
...some windup merchant


lukee
Theres a man vigorously cycling on an exercise bike in the basement - this generates the electricity that makes the clock work.


Spanglish McWhirter
There's a guy who actually lives *in* the thing and whose sole job is to take care of it and, er, "wind it up" I suppose! It's not an inaccurate timepiece as far as I know...


Trixie Bordello
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Forced labour from the Queen's dungeons.


brit_plod
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It's pretty accurate... It's not wound up... It runs off 2 giant Duracells!


billybags
Little Ben and his mate.


paul m
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a guy called BEN winds it up with a big key, and he uses 2 pence pieces to keep it running correctly


kaiwan58
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the japanes bought it out (in lieu of some debts to the UK that they wrote off) and it now runs on a citizen ecodrive quartz movement powered by light.





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