Show Ii KING ING EDW 3 S ASSORTMENT OF pF CLOCKS THAT T DID DUTY DUTY AGES AGO AGE Mirror hurter Edward VII has baa 6 timepieces ip Windsor Castle catIe and over in Palace In St James i Palace Pala and Hampton Court Coure are ILIe many marry more o making makinI in all a kingly portion pettit in inKing n no Of o 1 King Bing Henry VIUs clocks clock which were ere erea a sourer source of i great rear ett delight to Mm him at the I palace J of Westminster We In 1542 1 U only numbered numb red Ie 14 I On the morning of her wedding Henry I VIII gae gave Anne Ann Boleyn yn a clock ten teft in ill inches ches high hi h as aa a present prow t It is now in n WK Uw chapel retiring room at Windsor Castle The lead weights are partly I co covered ered in copper cop gilt and are engraved en ved I II I with H R A and aDd true levers knot on i ione one and H K A alone aJo on the other I the UH bottom of each are th the I I words The Most Hap Happ Happye e Poor Anne Boleyn was behe beh dett det four years after attEl I Queen Victoria bought g this t lock clock do k at tI the j sale e of or Horace Walpole W poles s effects at it i I Strawberry Hilt Full for is J i This clock should surely haye hn laae e stop stopped I ped perl when Anne Boleyn df died but it Is i evidently not a sympathetic timepiece tim j like Uk the one in Hampton n Court cou rt Tills This I is an old astronomical clock originally i made in 1410 for Henry Reno VI VIII I It was restored in 1886 1884 arid nd s sat at up u in Clock II Court Cou after lying for fifty years y ars in a shed says Pays the author of Royal 1 Clocks a book published by Air Mr John Walker the he Kings 8 to fur further further further ther the interests of artistic itts ing i It was first erected on the eve of Henry Bensy He VIs to Catherine Howard Before the year yeat was out the great dial saw her taken from palace to prison At Hampton Court also lived JIved AnnE Anno of i Denmark t James Jame Is 15 queen At the j moment of her death in 1619 1613 the clock I i suddenly stopped the tory story goes Since then it has popped st the sto HLo story 1 goes when any y one on dies died i who has l lied tt for tor a long while in the palace I The dl dial lof of the clock consists of oC three V copper discs of different sizes revolving r Yoh ing lag at different rates In the center c of l the smallest which is 3 feet f t 3 31 12 inches In diameter is In a 8 globe Iob representing too the earth a smaller di disc c traveling in a a cir dr circular I cular hole Behind shows and phases o othe of the moon A second disc 4 feet 1 12 inches in diameter projects from he lie hind and nd gives the moons age in days while the e largest V disc of 17 1 feet 10 inches exhibits the day dav of the month and the position of the sun in the Nicholas the designer de g gner ner of the clock was not only a watch watchmaker watChmaker watchmaker maker but a diplomatist who wen went to o Germany on a secret mission for the king One of the few clocks docks known which w ch g go go o for qt a year without t has h stood inthe in the same S t for 20 OO years yearn In William Ills Illa st i l oom at a Hamp tot ton Court Daniel ware Quare made it ita a celebrated artificer who in Ip inVented in invented vented the minute wheel and aIMI gave two han hands hand to watches Before then they thc only on nad adour our hands T Tb finest block tock at Windsor from a onn n er r view lifts a per perfect perfect feet and elegant snap pe to a height b o 0 seven v neet feet Teet t tw 6 ands anda and a quarter inin inch In InIn g In the tha Van Dyke room It is of Louis Louts XIV iv Bubl Buhl in red shell and gilt metal from the design of fie marquis The he present movement ment is by whose tame name ap re on roy royal o al s1 clocks docke He mad Cite large lar e clock at atthe atthe atthe the general St Grand V Vt i t iThe The Windsor Castle turret clock clod placed la ed over mer f the state te entrance In the quadrangle q drangle goes gots for eight days dalys s and m strikes the quarters as well as the hours ours The Th great u wheels heels of f the striking ing parts eve axe twenty four inches in di diameter diameter ameter meter and the hours are struck on on o a abell al abell bell l weighing neighing ing hundred hundredweight hundredweight weight It n is wound by b a double mul multiplying jaek jack and requires revolutions to raise the weights Act of ef Parliament t Hock Ih tn Windsor castle teo tee in the foot mans room is an act ef Qt V parliament clock It has a large larse dial of wood painted black with gUt gilt figures not covered by a glass and a trunk long enough nough to allow mow of a second pendu pendulum pendulum pendulum lum Pitt PUt has bas Imposed a tax on Oft all time Ume timepieces pieces pl es so se these clocks were designed for taverns where they might stand out boldly and tell teU the time to unfortunate ate members of the public unable on ac account of or the tax tat to afford a watch In the kings kin s room at Buckingham ar 1 Palace is a sympathetic clock Over Oyer it itis itIs Itis is a watch worn orn once on by George g IV which is set to time by a small piece of steel that shoots up at 12 andi entering en entering entering a hole bole in the rim operates on an the minute hand and aud makes it correspond with the clock provided the difference is 15 not nol more than twenty minutes It was at as made by of Paris 1146 13 1 3 who invented hr a win winding in motion i which wafe w done by 53 the movement mo ent o othe b of the wearers body a watch with pro projecting pro projecting hours h urs for the use of the blind bUnd and the or tipsy key by which the winding of a watch the wrong Tong way yay ay is rendered harmless On the thc mantel shelf helf s in the state fin fining nn ln ing ID room a fine Ine design by T is seen seen of Apollo in his bis chariot urging his big hl 1 steed over a space representing the t vault of heaven The wheel of the J chariot charlot te Ss the th the slat dIal This beautiful clock check I k was once co J by y a glass gIa case casc but I C the king thinking that these cases were inartistic removed tomeS ed it and many others ther that riar t at had previously covered the royal clocksIn uI clocks In the blue drawing room is I an as astronomical clock by Lepine who woo lived in inthe latter half balf of the eighteenth elgh wen en e tur tury which forms Corms a perpetual calendar It is is two feet six Inches and Ud has three dials Its inner and ti upper dial dialI is surmounted by a on 01 each side aide of which is a bronzed gUt gilt cupid who vho by the mathematical mathematics in instruments instruments around them seem to have haie laid aside for the time being the light pursuit of oC love Iove Its two outside dials t are aN encircled oo with the signs of the Zo sac lac The central dial denotes the tha time land d has a second nd hand the dial on the right of ot the spectator denotes the tha days of the week and phases of tb the moon and the dial on the left denotes month and the day of the month moRth |