Why have so many grandfather clocks on ebay got tempus fugit on them (latin_ time flies")?
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clocks tell time, and grandfather clocks are heirlooms, passed down from generation to generation over loooong periods of time. Yet, even to such a fixture of a family, time seems to go by fast, so even the keeper of time makes comment to this.
most clocks of that type have it on the face my own grandfather clock has it
It's latin for time flies and is just a reminder to us all.
It is latin for Time Flees, commonly translated to time Flies
Super clocks, have one with a repair date inside " '60 "...was not 1960, Clock actually dates from 1750, and even today, keeps perfect time, with annual TLC, a spray of fine oil. Time does fly for this clock at 250yrs of timekeeping. Thats 7,884,000,000 tick-tocks
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