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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gold leaf

Chronometry; Clock

An extremely thin sheet of solid gold sometimes applied as a decoration on columns, tablets, or other parts of a clock case.

going barrel

Chronometry; Clock

A barrel driving the train directly via a toothed ring on its periphery. In fusee clocks, the barrel drives the train through a gut or wire line, or chain.

The shadow-casting part of a sundial. The actual edge or point which casts the shadow is called the 'style', the gnomon being the whole structure. If the style is parallel to the earth's axis, the ...

globular or rotating moon

Chronometry; Clock

This is probably the most realistic reproduction of the changes in the moon's phases which has ever been contrived for use with clockwork. It consists of a sphere, half white and half black, rotating ...

globe clock

Chronometry; Clock

The earliest globe clocks were mechanically turned globes with clock dials made in 16th-century Europe. Another type has a globe with an inscribed revolving hour band and a fixed indicator to show ...

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 ...