Pendulum clock "Big Ben"

The clock is a pendulum with the furniture built with an opening panel on the front, with cut glass parts.

The clock is a pendulum with the furniture built with an opening panel on the front, with cut glass parts. In a plan view, it has a rounded shape on the edges of the front, with small curved glass. The front opens to the right side through a perfectly working lock and key. It is a 'furnit ure and table-top or desk model. The circular clock face has Arabic numbers. It has an excellent and perfectly functioning on time mechanism, which produces a sound at every quarter of hour and to take time. The pleasant and deep sound is called "Big Ben" because the bell sounds like the Big Ben in London. The mechanism is visible from behind, through one door with a small handle eyelet: the pendulum mechanism for the operation of the hours and also the system to chime for the production of sound are visible. This kind of watches is typically enclosed by fine wood shells, often finely decorated, regarded as true relics of craftsmanship mechanics and precision. Both mobile-shell, made of walnut, and the mechanism are in good condition; only three spots on the white area of the dial appear. A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a harmonic oscillator; it swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length, and resists swinging at other rates. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum clock was the world's most precise timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries pendulum clocks in homes, factories, offices and railroad stations served as primary time standards for scheduling daily life, work shifts, and public transportation, and their greater accuracy allowed the faster pace of life which was necessary for the Industrial Revolution. Pendulum clocks must be stationary to operate; any motion or accelerations will affect the motion of the pendulum, causing inaccuracies, so other mechanisms must be used in portable timepieces. They are now kept mostly for their decorative and antique value. Bibliography: Joella G. Yoder, Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 9780521524810.

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Data sheet

Origin
Milano, Italia
Period
XX century
Date
1930
Source
Collezione privata, tramite Dott. Nando Azzolini, perito del Tribunale di Milano, per conto di Ing. Tamai, Milano (Italia)
Width (cm)
38
Height (cm)
46
Depth (cm)
16
Weight (kg)
2,5
Packaging
it has to be packed entire

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