Time was measured communally using public sundials and
turret clocks. Towards the end of the 15th century, clockmakers invented a mechanism using a coiled spring instead of a falling weight which made it possible to produce smaller clocks that could be used in the home.
The successful candidate will also be responsible for the conservation, restoration and maintenance of timepieces in the Royal Collection, which range from
turret clocks to pocket watches at all royal residences around the country.
The clock-watcher would have to ensure the clocks are changed when they go forward in March and back again in October, and also be responsible for the conservation, restoration and maintenance of timepieces in the Royal Collection, which range from
turret clocks to pocket watches at all royal residences around the country, the Mirror reported.
If, on August 10, one followed the course of the Tony Oursler and Mary Heilmann-outfitted corridor and was led up a narrow staircase to an apse-like fourteenth floor, just beneath one of the city's few working
turret clocks, and into a space rumored to have housed Stanford White's red velvet swing for Evelyn Nesbit, one would have happened upon a chess match.
According to Landes, even when mechanical
turret clocks were introduced, flexible "nonclock standards" lingered on (76).
The company produced timepieces from Docket watches to
turret clocks and installed many hundreds of
turret clocks which were exported all around the world, as well as being used in public and private buildings throughout the UK.
The latest exhibition, Ingenious Timekeepers , gives the chance to take a peek at some fine examples of long case clocks,
turret clocks, watches, chronometers and other artefacts.
"I wrote the book because so very little has been recorded about
turret clocks. Queen Victoria ordered one for the family church in Windsor Great Park and that earned the family business a Royal Warrant, the only clock makers ever to be honoured by Royalty."
Specialist items include mustard pots and
turret clocks.
