The Horology Museum

The Catalogue

Individual clocks, watches, instruments and movements, each with photographs, maker, date, materials and the institution or archive that documents it. Every record links back to its source; images are credited and their rights status is tracked for review.

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Instruments · 1501-1600

Nocturnal and Sundial etc., gilt metal, French, 16th century, in case

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1501-1600

Sundial and Astrolabe, gilt and silvered, in case, made by Johannes Bonius, 16th century

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1568-1590

Original leather case for silver altitude sundial, made by Humfrey Cole, London, 1568-1590.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1650-1665

Folding pocket compass and sundial in boxwood case made by Henry Sutton, Threadneedle Street, London, 1650-1665.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1678-1724

Pocket sun dial with folding gnomon silver, in fish-skin case, 3 1/16 in lay 2 5/8 in inscribed "Butterfield a Paris", 1678-1724, Paris, France

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1680-1700

Sundial and case by Michael Butterfield, France, 1680-1700

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Instruments · 1694

Equinoctial sun dial

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1695-1702

Brass sundial and shagreen case, England, 1695-1702, Thomas Tuttell.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Instruments · 1698-1702

Analemmatic sundial, brass, by Tuttell, London, England, 1698-1702 (gnomons imperfect) with case.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1703-1726

Universal equatorial sundial, crescent-shaped with perpetual calendar, gilt and silvered metal, inscribed "Johannes Willebrand Augsburg 48", in case

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1735-1760

Astronomical dial, by Joseph Jackson; in case (compass needle missing)

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1738-1777

Azimuth sundial 4 3/8" diam, with folding gnomon fitted in mahogany case, made by B. Martin

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1745-1755

Magnetic Sundial with six loose hour rings

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1751-1850

Horizontal compass sundial for latitudes 43 degrees, 46 degrees, 49 degrees, 52 degrees, in rosewood case French, c.1800 Cover glass cracked.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1751-1850

Horizontal magnetic sundial in wooden case, compass card marked in german and latin. German, late 18th century.

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1751-1850

Horizontal magnetic sundial in wooden case, glass cover and compass card missing. ? German, c.1800

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1751-1825

Sundial, by Troughton, in case. Invented and made by Troughton

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1766-1800

Equinoctial Sundial, octagonal, marked "And: Vogl", in case

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1766-1800

Universal compass sundial, metal gilt, engraved and pierced, "And: Vogl". In case

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1801-1850

Horizonal magnetic sundial in wooden case with equation of time table in the lid, glass cover missing. English first half of the 19th century

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1801-1900

Portable universal equinoctial sundial in brass with mahogany case, English, c.1900

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1824-1828

Horizontal magnetic sundial in leather covered case, signed on the dial "C.Essex & Co, London". English, mid 19th century

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1824

Horizontal magnetic sundial in wooden case, signed on the dial "S. Porter Fecit Feby.16. 1824". English

Science Museum Group, London

Instruments · 1824

Sundial by Porter, Samuel (maker), England, 1824

Science Museum Group, London