Lantern clock
Category
Horology
Date
1650
Materials
Brass, steel, bell metal, rope and lead.
Measurements
38 x 16 x 19 cm
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719094
Summary
30 hour English lantern clock, c.1660 /1700 2 train, posted frame construction lantern clock movement with anchor escapement and count wheel hour-striking on bell. Single cast iron driving weight on Huygens endless rope and a wooden pulley. Engraved brass dial with 6” diameter chapter ring having roman hour numerals. Engraved dial centre with blank area in the centre where an alarm disc would originally have been. Single steel hour hand. Brass lantern clock case with beaten brass side doors and iron back with spurs and holes where an alarm mechanism would originally have been fixed. Note: The clock would appear to have originally been balanced-controlled with two separate driving weights on single lines and was converted to anchor escapement and Huygens endless rope about 1700. The clock also had an alarm mechanism, indicated by the blank area in the dial centre and the pivot hole for the releasing arbor present on the dial front by the XI. The front fret is now missing, and the side frets are later replacements (older holes now unused). The doors are probably later restorations, as are the bell, straps, top finial and spacer.
Marks and inscriptions
Bell cap inscribed 'Tyme Speketh not. Doth Warneth not. AD 1650'