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The Metropolitan Life Tower, designed by Le Brun & Sons in a massive and simple Italian Renaissance style, was completed in 1909. Its four clock faces are each 26½ feet in diameter, with minute hands weighing ½ ton. Four chimes, the largest weighing 7000 pounds, sound a measure by Handel on the quarter hours.
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