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German, late 16th century","physicalDescription":"Case: Gilt brass case with splayed base (13.6 cm square), engraved with strapwork arabesques; the case, similarly engraved, is of square plan with decorated three-quarter columns at its corners. \r\nThe bell is set on top of the case beneath two arched straps of gilt brass which terminate in cast demi-figures of Pegasus; the intersection of these arches is surmounted by a cast modern figure of a man in armour with a shield and formerly with a spear. \r\n\r\nDial: Dial applied to the front engraved panel, 6.3 cm diameter. Outer chapter ring I to XII in Roman, each hour with a touch-pin, and with half-hour marks. Within this, 13 to 24 (Germanic Z's) in arabic. Central alarm disc with 1 to 12 clockwise in arabic, and engraved centre. Single steel hand, with tail. Dial for strike on rear panel, 6.3 cm diameter, numbered 1 to 12 in arabic, and with touch-pins. The dial centre engraved. Its hand missing. Slot with projecting pin for release of count-wheel when required. \r\n\r\nMovement: Frame and all wheels of iron, except the contrate wheel and crown wheel of the going train (later renewals). Going train in front of case, with fixed mainspring, now without a barrel.  Stop-work (lug onh winding square now missing) permits 2 and three-quarter turns of winding. Drive to hour wheel by reduction gearing (20:84) from second wheel, which rotated three times as fast as great wheel. Bow with verge escapement, but the bob pendulum attached to the verge now broken off. Signs of former lower potence for vertical verge. The present horizontal verge worn and defective. \r\nLocking-plate striking, with resting-barrel and spring within it. Stopwork permits 4 three-quarter turns of winding.\r\nDrive to count-wheel by reduction gearing from second wheel of striking train. Vertical bell-hammer shaft.\r\nSmall, renewed alarm train at top right of front part of movement, with wind through the side panel, this train also with fixed spring and stopwork. Release mechanism. 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By 1620 there were forty master clockmakers in Augsburg and their reputation was acknowledged accross Europe, with time-pieces exported to distant foreign markets. The Italian Garzoni wrote ' a great number of German craftsmen excel in the art of horology and all the best and most precise timekeepers actually come from Germany'.Garzoni, T , <i>La Piazza Universale di tutte le professioni del mondo</i>, Venice, 1595\n\n'Tuching manuall arts, the Dutch are a people more industrious then the Garmans and excell them in all arts and trades...howsoever I must confesse that the Germans of Nuremberg in those parts are esteemed the best workman for clockes and some like thinges'\n\nFynes Moryson, <i>Itinerary</i>, ed. C.Hughes, London, 1903\n\nBoth quoted in Carlo M.Cipolla, <u>Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700</u>, 1967, p.62."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1575-1600","earliest":"1575-01-01","latest":"1600-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by W.E.Miller FSA","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"24.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Height including cast figure. 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