Clock

Clock

Any instrument other than a watch for measuring or indicating time, especially a mechanical or electronic device having a numbered dial and moving hands or a digital display.

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Motor

Chronometry; Clock

The term used in the United States for the mainspring and barrel. It also applies to the driving unit of electric clocks.

Motion work

Chronometry; Clock

The train of wheels in a clock giving the usual 12 to 1 reduction between the minute and hour hands.

Parcel gilding

Chronometry; Clock

Partly gilding. Normally, a term used in connexion with partially gilded domestic objects made of silver, it also applies to parcel-gilt clock dials and in some instances decorative metal clock ...

Originally, 'mashed paper', mixed with glue and other materials, which could be moulded. In the early Victorian period there was a vogue for small items of furniture made from layers of tough paper ...

Paperweight clock, japanese

Chronometry; Clock

Paperweight or doctor's clocks are small spring-driven timepieces (average length about 4 1/4in. ). They resemble pillar clocks, being long and thin with a linear dial that shows the time on a ...

Gathering pallet

Chronometry; Clock

In striking work, the arm sometimes called a 'tumbler' which restores the rack to its resting position, gathering one tooth for each blow struck during the striking action.

Entry and exit pallet

Chronometry; Clock

The entry pallet is the first encountered by an escape-wheel tooth. The exit pallet is that encountered as a tooth leaves engagement with the pallets.