Early Clocks | Lee Borrett
Key-Wound 30-hour
Long Pendulum Clock
c.1668–1670
This exceptionally early English 30-hour long-pendulum clock, dating from c.1668–1670, survives from one of the most important periods of technological change in English clockmaking. Its wonderfully original movement incorporates the newly developed anchor escapement and long pendulum, while the beautifully engraved 9¾-inch brass dial retains its early iron hands, tulip decoration and distinctive trident half-hour markers. Made only a few years after the introduction of this revolutionary form of timekeeping, the clock provides a remarkable glimpse into the very beginnings of the English longcase clock.
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Charles Rogers
at Guild Hall, c1672
The beautifully proportioned early tulip-dial longcase clock illustrated here is a rare London 30-hour example, made by Charles Rogers at Guild Hall around 1672. Its finely engraved square brass dial, early winged-cherub spandrels and distinctive matchstick half-hour markers place it amongst the fascinating first generation of English longcase clocks produced following the introduction of the long pendulum and anchor escapement. With its wonderfully interesting historical background and surviving evidence of Rogers’s life and working career in Restoration London, this remarkable clock provides a fascinating glimpse into the formative years of English longcase clockmaking.
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