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4174 - Neoclassical Vienna table clocks
Style:
18. century
Classicism
Neoclassicism
Period:
1780-1789
Source:
Austria
Vienna
Height:
50 cm / 19.69″
Width:
31 cm / 12.2″
Depth:
16 cm / 6.3″
Price:
2 386 EUR
2 808 USD
Verge escapement - daily machine.
Quarter beat - 1/4 - beats every 15 minutes.
Chiseled decoration - brass.
Dials - enamel.
This mechanism also has a lunar calendar that marked the phases of the moon. It required precise watchmaking work that only the richest classes could afford.
Signed dial by a Viennese watchmaker.
Verge escapement is a mechanical device that for the first time made it possible to convert continuous movement (driven by a spring) into intermittent, regulated movement, and thus measure time.

Spindle is a popular expression derived from the German word Spindel, which means spindle. Clocks that used it were called "spindle clocks". This is the clock movement used in the Baroque era.
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