The Dance of the Hours

Do you know the full inscription (for want of a better word)? Or why it's in English?

Your hometown is a Swiss heritage site in its entirety, I believe. That's a big distinction. And they make lots of respected brands of watches.

And it sure is an interesting photo. Good stuff.

“WITHOUT FULL RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, NO FREEDOM, NO DEMOCRACY, NO LIBERTY AND NO PEACE ARE POSSIBLE ON OUR PLANET EARTH.”
Apparently, it was the brainchild of Nicolas G. Hayek, President and Delegate of the Board of Directors of the Swatch Group who donated this piece of public art to the city. It was part of the launch of the "Human Rights" Swatch, see: www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100004013/100511434
Why in English? Because it's the lingua franca. So they didn't have to fight whether it should be in German or in French or both ...
Which is why French-speaking Swiss and German-speaking Swiss use English when they meet abroad. It simplifies the conversation ....

My hometown, as I may have mentioned before, won the contest for "ugliest town in Switzerland" for several years in a row. It's all relative ....

With this monument, Grenchen can keep the title of number one :-))