Wall clock

The shape of this clock was probably designed in response to the needs of its owner, who led an active life, full of meetings; since he travelled by carriage, he required an indispensable clock resilient to all changes of position and shock-proof. The mechanism of a pocket watch was redesigned according to special directives, changing the escapement with a fly-wheel under a bridge to a barrel bridge with a cylinder escapement, a single-metal fly-wheel, a flat hair-spring and a simple regulating device (which sounds very complicated to people uninitiated into the mysteries of the relations between cog wheels and the measurement of time). The dial-plate and the clock mechanism were granted, instead of a case, a wide frame with delicate Empire decorations, outfitted with a piece of glass and a suspension spring with a ring. Placed on a carriage or study wall the clock showed minutes and hours. Was it really shock-proof? Probably not. Its owner might have considered it very precious since he granted it an honorary place on his study wall.