Many of us were expecting the Olympic Games themselves to have the glitches, but 500 days before they start the countdown clock decided to go on strike.
The recently unveiled Olympic Clock in Trafalgar Square suffered an “outage” as the techies would call it, when a few days after being unveiled. The incident was rather embarrassing for Omega who installed the clock – so much so that they sent their chief engineer from Switzerland to fix it.
What exactly was wrong with the clock hasn’t been revealed, but as it came flat-packed from the Swiss clockmaker one can assume that sprocket A was connected to Flange B instead of Rod C.
Happily the clock is now telling the time again and since it is Swiss made, at least we can be pretty sure the clock will be arriving on time regardless of the rest of the London Olympics.
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