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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Pendule Louis XIV

Chronometry; Clock

The early part of Louis XIV's reign (1643-1715) was a bad time for clockmaking, though watches were fashionable. The development of the pendulum caused renewed interest in clocks, leading to the ...

Pendule Louis XIII

Chronometry; Clock

The reign of Louis XIII (1610-43) spanned the last period of Renaissance clockmaking in France before the mid 17th-century fashion for watches apparently caused the almost complete cessation of ...

The French term for longcase clocks. They were never as popular in France as in England, but some magnificent examples were made, the cases often by distinguished 閎閚istes. Pendules longue ligne were ...

Pendule empire

Chronometry; Clock

A clock made during the period 1802-14, when Napoleon ruled as emperor of the French. Gilt-bronze cases with figures developed the Directoire themes, but these became subtly influenced by the ...

Pendule d'officier

Chronometry; Clock

A gilt-metal or brass travelling clock made in France, Germany or Switzerland from c. 1780 until c. 1820. Of several types, they preceded the classic pendules de voyage of the later 19th century, and ...

Pendule directoire

Chronometry; Clock

A clock made during the period of the Directory in France (1795 - 1800). The Revolution had caused a break in the clockmaking tradition but, encouraged by the government, it resumed after the ...

Pendule de voyage

Chronometry; Clock

A travelling clock, normally with a cylinder form of lever escapement mounted on a separate platform, developed in France in the early 19th century and made in great numbers in that country in the ...