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LicenseSpring driven clock by Edward East, London, c.1664
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Spring driven clock by Edward East, London, c.1664
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Spring driven clock by Edward East, London, c.1664
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Spring driven clock by Edward East, London, c.1664. Dial with applied silvered chapter ring and alarm disc to centre, and engraved all over with flowers. Signed 'Eduardus East Londini'. Steel hour hand. Winding holes for going train and alarm-work and slot at the base to allow the pendulum to be set going. Movement of three-day duration, with verge escapement and alarm-work. Both alarm and going barrels are flanged. Plates secured by pins on the backplate. Signed on backplate 'Eduardus East Londini'.
A very early example of a London-made pendulum timepiece with alarm-work. The clock has an outer wooden case enabling it to stand on a table, but almost certainly would have originally hung in an ebony case from the wall. Clockmakers' Museum No. 1267
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2015-4177
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), steel (metal), gilt brass, bronze (copper, tin alloy) and silvered brass
- Measurements:
-
overall: 340 mm x 240 mm x 90 mm,
dial: 285 mm x 240 mm
- type:
- spring clock, table clock and verge escapement
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
