equation clock;
long-case clock;
striking clock
- Museum number
- 1958,1006.2161
- Description
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Long-case clock movement; fine mean and solar timepiece; strike; equation mechanism; striking solar time; gridiron pendulum.
TRAIN-COUNTS.
Going.
Gt wheel 100
2nd wheel 64/10
3rd wheel 60/8
Escape wheel 30/8
Striking.
Gt wheel 90
2nd wheel 60/10
Pin wheel 54/6
Warning wheel 48/6
Fly 6
- Production date
- 1735-1745
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10 inches (dial)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See:
- Bedini, Silvio A., ‘The One-Wheeled Clock, and Clocks with Two and Three Wheels - Part 1’, La Suisse Horlogère et Revue Internationale de l’horlogerie, Int. Ed., Adventures in time, 1962, 23–34
- Bedini, Silvio A., ‘The One-Wheeled Clock, and Clocks with Two and Three Wheels - Part 2’, La Suisse Horlogère et Revue Internationale de l’horlogerie, Int. Ed., 1, 1963, 27–40
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Latest: 2 (Aug 2016)
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- The Ilbert Collection of clocks, prints and other related material was destined to be sold at Christie's auction house on 6th-7th November 1958. As a result of the generous donation of funds by Gilbert Edgar CBE the sale was cancelled and the material purchased privately from the beneficiaries of the Ilbert Estate.
Ilbert's watches were then acquired with further funds from Gilbert Edgar CBE, public donations and government funds. These were then registered in the series 1958,1201.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1958,1006.2161
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CAI.2161 (Ilbert Collection)
