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Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Striking chamber clock by an unknown maker, Germany, 1575-1600. Steel case with four moulded corner uprights set at an angle. Fixed dial plate; back and side plates removable. Pierced steel balustrade round the top. Four-arm support for bell. Hour circle engraved on plain steel plate with central sun. Plain steel alarm setting ring to centre of dial. Steel arrow hand. Spring driven. Originally with verge escapement and balance, but later replaced with brass wheels and pendulum. The steel wheels of the striking train are original. Alarm train at right angles, also original.
Formed part of the collection of the Reverend Henry Nelthropp, later donated by Nelthropp to the museum of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. Clockmakers' Museum No. 583
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-3464
- Materials:
- steel (metal) and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 235 mm x 110 mm x 135 mm,
- type:
- clock and spring-driven
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
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