Eight-day astronomical longcase clock by Thomas Vickery

Made:
1931 in Bridgnorth
Eight-day astronomical longcase clock by Thomas Vickery

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Eight-day astronomical longcase clock by Thomas Vickery
The Clockmakers' Museum/Clarissa Bruce
© The Clockmakers’ Charity

Dead-beat escapement longcase clock by Thomas Vickery in a solid oak case. The painted brass dial shows the hours and minutes, equation-of-time, times of sunrise and sunset, the age and phases of the moon, position of the principal constellations, the sun' s place in the ecliptic and has a perpetual calendar. The three-train movement strikes the hours and chimes the quarters. The musical train plays every three hours, a different tune every day: a hymn each Sunday. The tunes chosen are those played by Bath Abbey clock, Bath being Vickery’s birthplace. Seconds pendulum with invar rod. Bridgnorth, Shropshire, 1931

Clockmakers' Museum No. 556

Details

Category:
Clockmakers
Collection:
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Object Number:
L2015-3442
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal), oak (wood), invar (nickel, iron alloy) and glass
type:
longcase clock and dead beat
credit:
Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers