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  2. Ansonia Clock Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1851 the Ansonia Clock Company was formed [2] as a subsidiary of the Ansonia Brass Company by Phelps and two Bristol, Connecticut, clockmakers, Theodore Terry and Franklin C. Andrews. Terry & Andrews were the largest clock manufacturers in Bristol, with more than 50 employees using 58 tons of brass in the production of about 25,000 clocks in ...

  3. German Clock Museum - Wikipedia

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    A wooden clock face with a white background and colourfully painted motif decorated the Black Forest clocks during the whole of the 19th century. With a colourless, protective varnish the clock faces were resistant to moisture and dirt. From the second half of the 18th century, the varnished plate clock (Lackschilduhr) dominated the European ...

  4. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    High quality watches were produced by firms such as Patek Philippe, an example being a Patek Philippe ref. 1518, introduced in 1941, possibly the most complicated wristwatch ever made in stainless steel, which fetched a world record price in 2016 when it was sold at auction for $11,136,642.

  5. Tokugawa Ieyasu's Clock - Wikipedia

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    The clock has a portable box, which is made out of what appears to be cedar wood with leather attached. The box has a round glass window so that the time can be read even when the clock is stored. [16] The upper plate of the box, which serves as a lid, is a semi-circular sphere that matches the dome of the clock. [22]

  6. List of clock manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Eardley Norton, a most highly esteemed member of the Clockmakers' Company, was working between 1762 and 1794. There are clocks by him in the Royal Collection and many museums worldwide. Norton made an astronomical clock for George III which still stands in Buckingham Palace.

  7. Ormolu - Wikipedia

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    French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815) Ormolu (/ ˈ ɔːr m ə ˌ l uː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.

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  9. Salisbury Cathedral clock - Wikipedia

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    Salisbury Cathedral clock, restored. The Salisbury Cathedral clock is a large iron-framed tower clock without a dial, in Salisbury Cathedral, England.Thought to date from about 1386, it is a well-preserved example of the earliest type of mechanical clock, called verge and foliot clocks, and is said to be the oldest working clock in the world, [1] although similar claims are made for other clocks.

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