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.

Industry: Chronometry

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In better-quality lever escapements the pallets are made from rectangular jewels known as 'stones'. Regulator clocks with dead-beat escapements have the acting faces of the pallets jewelled. These ...

Glass dial

Chronometry; Clock

Glass dials are simply clock glasses on which the hour and minute numerals are marked instead of on a conventional dial. Such dials make it possible to see the movement of the clock in the same ...

Girandole clock

Chronometry; Clock

A distinctively American clock which derives its name from the similarly shaped mirror with convex glass and gilded balls surrounding the frame. Somewhat similar to the banjo clock, though larger, ...

Gingerbread

Chronometry; Clock

The name used to describe the elaborate designs pressed into a clock's wooden case.

Gilding

Chronometry; Clock

The process of coating a base metal such as brass with a very fine layer of gold, much used in watch-movement finishing. For clocks it is largely confined to decorative external details such as ...

Gears

Chronometry; Clock

Gearing is the basis of clockmaking and the ability to calculate the necessary ratios is a fundamental clockmaking skill. To reduce pivot frictional losses, high gear ratios are necessary, leading in ...

Dividers

Chronometry; Clock

Dividers, or measuring compasses, differ little from compasses exept that they are spring-hinged and are adjusted by a knurled nut and screw for fine measurement. They are used for taking comparative ...