UK Queen's staff to spend 40 hours changing her 1,000 clocks; see the royal collection

Royal Collection Trust staff will change more than 1,000 clocks’ timing installed at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Palace of Holyrood house, and in all of Queen’s official residences this weekend as British Summer Time wraps up. On October 23, clocks go back an hour with onset of winters, and   UK switches to Greenwich Mean Time. Royal Collection, which includes musical clocks, astromical clocks, miniature clocks, and turret clocks, is supposed to be justed over weekend, which can take an estimated more than 40 hours.

According to Buckingham Palace's release, re's a range of mechanical invation in Queen's clock collections from over centuries as per  tastes of monarchs that have ruled in succession. Royal staff is assigned job of altering over 1,000 timepieces. re are 50 clocks installed at Palace of Holyroodhouse, alone. Queen has appointed a team of horological conservators who are allocated task of working through weekend in order to tune time accurately with GMT. According to sources of UK's Belfast daily, that would mean manpower will be engd in changing needles for 450 timepieces at Windsor Castle, 600 at Buckingham Palace, and several or century-old clocks hung across Queen's residences. 

Earlier, Buckingham Palace hosted an art exhibition, in which it will portray some of  most mired and masterpieces art collection for 'first time ever'. Artistic pieces composed by Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Vermeer, Van Dyck, Canaletto, and many more went on display due to its temporary removal to revamp  Palace’s aging wiring and antiquated le pipes. Some of most iconic works, also a favourite of queen, were shown to visitors.  

[Room at Windsor Castle. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II /Royal Collection Trust.]

[A conservator justs a clock in Buckingham Palace. © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II / Royal Collection Trust]

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Paintings removed due to revation

As many as 65 old paintings from Royal Collection were assembled toger after y were removed from staterooms due to revations. Queen’s “favourite” collection that included Dutch and Italian art pieces were shifted to gallery as  £369million refurbishment work started in palace. Her majesty’s most “treasured” painting Rembrandt's Shipbuilder and his Wife (1633) and or similar works by some of prominent artists like Vermeer and Canaletto were displayed, which has only been witnessed by eir guests or reception workers.

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