That "restoration" was total bull$hit! They replaced the dial showing a map of the flat Earth, with a new dial showing the Earth as a globe!!! I'm not saying the Earth is actually flat...but the Azimuthal Equidistant map is the only map that shows all of the continents at once...and that was the map used to create the clock originally. Think of the United Nations map...that is what was once used as the background on the Prague clock.

The head restorer of the clock is my cousin. He is a very gifted artist and was one of the tiny percent invited to special Art school when he was in public school, during the days of communism.

very interesting. I think the changes look fine. However they are changed far to much from the original.

The subtlety of the original was lost, the subtlety in both color shifts and anatomy. The only thing I do like is the addition of the dog. That said, he was chosen for the work and paid for the work. All things change. For example, I prefer a zodiac dial with the animals instead of the symbols. Things simply change and modernize. It is a marvel indeed that the clock is still operational and still so wondrous to behold.

He was chosen to do the restoration based on his previous work of exact reproductions, and then selfishly did what he wanted instead. This is an incredibly poorly done job, since #1, the artist did not do the work as was requested by the commissioners, #2 the portraits do not even come close to resembling the time period indicated in the original, and are complete re-characterizations, and #3 the people look like they were painted by a community college's sophomore art class. That brunette on the far right in the first comparison looks like Aunt Helen from the Miller family reunion of 1996. This is debasement, at its core, by directly and unquestionably changing the art. People idiotically believe this to be punk or philosophical in some way, but it's truly just a way to get his fame in this time and age of blatant apathy and disrespect to creators. We have firsthand views of life in art for thousands of years, should we really be anything but outraged that people like this are robbing our children, grandchildren, and all of the future generations of what was? Value of art only increases with age- do artists such as this wish for it all to be forgotten and meaningless? A world of tainted art- is that the inheritance we will leave? Just like this Earth, we are not owners of these wonders, but custodians. To corrupt and dishonor such heirlooms is worse than pissing on someone's grave, altering their life's legacy and masterpiece is up there with the highest of insults. The greatest wrong out of all of this, though, is that the work was not supervised and inspected before the "mistake" (is anyone really buying that excuse?) was discovered FOUR YEARS LATER. So many art history degrees out there hard at work. Despite my ranting, which I delivered since you did ask how I, a viewer, felt about this controversy, I would like to say thank you for making this video and raising awareness of the situation. Museums exist and have art conservation teams as well as security for a reason.

Great content, keep it up!

I had to comment to get the number from 33 comments to 34, if it doesnt move why ?

Are you still doing walking tours? If so, I wanted to connect you to some friends who are coming. We had the best time on both of your tours.

One on right is too dark, original left is much better

Just leave it up to people to dick something up. Not original in any way. Might as well change the sexes of some of the figures too.

Nope still on 33

Well Apostols statues was burn down by fire cost be burning beam that fall from town hall tower to apostols chember. Not be direct hit by Germans mortal form Celetná street. Eaven some brraz bolt of Orloj clockwork was melt by heat

TERRIBLE!