The Independent - London, March 12th, 1999
AT MIDNIGHT French time on 31 December of this year, while most of Paris is going crazy on the Champs-Elysees, a clock-work miracle will occur unseen at the Chateau de Versailles.
A clock built 253 years ago, to show days, months and years as well as hours and minutes, will tick-tock its way without fuss or fanfare into the new millennium. The first digit on the year- counter, which has been stuck on "one" for the past two-and-a-half centuries, will move smoothly and silently on to "two". The other digits will turn to zero and the clock - sometimes called the 10,000- year clock - will have en...
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