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Spring clock, numbered 243, with pull quarter-repeating, by Thomas Tompion
The Clockmakers' Museum/Clarissa Bruce
© The Clockmakers’ Charity
Pull quarter-repeating spring table clock numbered 243, by Thomas Tompion in an ebony veneered oak case with gilt brass mounts.
The dial has been gilded and has a silvered chapter ring and subsidiary silvered dials for regulation and strike/silent.
8-day movement with latched plates, verge escapement and pull quarter-hour repeating on one bell. Signed ‘Thomas Tompion Londini fecit’. c.1695
Clockmakers' Museum No. 562
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- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3447
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), glass, oak (wood), steel (metal), textile and wood (unidentified)
- type:
- verge movement
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
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