Clocks · Spring-driven pendulum clock
Pendulum clock by Salomon Coster (Huygens design)
DocumentedEditorial status
Among the earliest pendulum clocks; error fell from minutes to seconds per day.
- Maker / attribution
- Christiaan Huygens
- Attribution as recorded
- Salomon Coster, after Christiaan Huygens
- Country of origin
- Dutch Republic
- Place of manufacture
- The Hague
- Date
- 1657
- Historical period
- Early Modern Horology
- Movement
- Verge with pendulum
- Escapement
- Verge escapement
- Winding / power
- Spring
- Case / materials
- Ebony veneer
- Dimensions
- Undocumented here
- Holding / location
- Museum Boerhaave, Leiden (surviving example)
Mechanisms in this object
- Verge escapement — Escapement
Related reading
- Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers, F. J. Britten (1899 (first edition))
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