Astronomical clock at Hampton Court Palace. May 1998

From the Historic Royal Palaces website:

King Henry VIII commissioned Nicolas Kratzer (a Bavarian and friend of court painter Hans Holbein) to design an astronomical clock for his palace at Hampton Court, which was installed around 1540. The astronomer and ‘Devisor of the King’s Horologes’, working with French clockmaker Nicholas Oursian, created not only a marvel of Tudor engineering with complex mechanics, but also an enviable work of art. It also had great practical use showing the time, month, day of the month, position of the sun in the zodiac, the phase and age of the moon. It also determined the time at which the moon would cross the meridian and therefore the time of high water at London Bridge, useful if you, like King Henry, travelled to London by Royal Barge.

The clock was removed in late 2007 (and replaced in mid-2008) so restoration work could be done. If you look at the clock now, you will see bright red and azure, probably much closer to what Henry VIII would have seen. The last time it had been repainted was in 1960, so the colors had faded quite a bit by the time I took this photo.

[Sorry this is a day late... I just couldn't get it done yesterday after finishing yet another science meeting, followed by running the public night on the telescope]