# Orloj replica quest **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 18, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053 "2005-07-18T22:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/1 "2005-07-18T22:11:11Z")
In this thread: > **[Help! Need a replica of the clock in Blade 2, similar to clock on Prague...](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=325601)** > > Ok, the thread title pretty much says it all. I am looking for the clock that appears in the movie Blade 2 (which I have not yet seen, but am working on). Evidentally, it is hanging in the office, and on the DVD in the bonus materials, the director... I explained that I was trying to find a small, desktop version of the clock in Blade 2. After much searching, I was able to determine that what I am actually looking for is the middle section of the Orloj in Prague [www.orloj.com](http://www.orloj.com) After many hours of searching using every possible combinations of words and phrases I can find, I am still without luck finding a small desktop version. If _anyone_ can give me a hand, I’d be ever so grateful, and will bow down before you as having far superior search skills than I. At this point, I have tried emailing a tour guide in Prague to see if the souvenir shops carrying anything like it. I’m also ready to try to email the director of Blade 2, as evidentally in the bonus material director’s interview, there is a desktop version on the desk. Thanks … many thanks, ~cats ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/2 "2005-07-18T23:49:09Z")
_bangs her head on the keyboard_ I’m simply going to have to start saving money to go to Prague myself. ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/3 "2005-07-19T02:29:16Z")
> [@simply\_cats](#): > > _bangs her head on the keyboard_ > I’m simply going to have to start saving money to go to Prague myself. Save a lot of money. A working desk top version of such a complicated clock/mechanism would require winning the powerball lottery! The orloj is probably the most or one of the most complicate tower clocks in Europe if not the world. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/4 "2005-07-19T13:08:36Z")
_nod_ I think I could probably design and craft a “fake” one on my own before I’m going to be albe to find one. However, I did email a tour guide in Prague, as well as the director of the Blade 2 movie. Maybe someone will be able to give me a lead. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/5 "2005-07-19T14:17:45Z")
It isn’t quite the same, but the next time you are at Versailles maybe you could “obtain” [this clock](http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/un_chef_d_oeuvre_32.php). Looks pretty spendy. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/6 "2005-07-19T14:19:42Z")
Also, I can’t imagine that there isn’t a software version of the Orloj available. If there isn’t there probably should be. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/7 "2005-07-19T14:31:34Z")
[Here you go.](http://www.pamio.cz/en.phtml) Bring your credit card. It’s not cheap. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/8 "2005-07-19T14:45:19Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > [Here you go.](http://www.pamio.cz/en.phtml) Bring your credit card. It’s not cheap. Actually, if it does work properly, I don’t think that is too expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/9 "2005-07-19T14:59:25Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Actually, if it does work properly, I don’t think that is too expensive. Well, the OP only wants the middle part, and not the whole ceramic shebang. So it’s maybe possible to write those guys and just get the mechanism itself and mount it in a block of a nice exotic hardwood. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orloj-replica-quest/313053/10 "2005-07-20T00:26:35Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Well, the OP only wants the middle part, and not the whole ceramic shebang. So it’s maybe possible to write those guys and just get the mechanism itself and mount it in a block of a nice exotic hardwood. Finagle, thank you so much 🙂 It isn’t exactly what I was hoping for, but I am doing as you suggested and writing the people at that site. As for price, that isn’t too unreasonable, but it was hard to see the detail in the pictures they offered. My hat’s off to you, and again… many, many thanks.