Few clocks of this mintage survived the true test of time and those that do are often not in the best condition, ... Antiques: 17th-century Dutch wall clock finds a home. Updated: Oct. 04, ...

By the 17th century, clocks had become trustworthy timekeepers but still lacked portability until they became wholly spring-driven late in in the 18th century.

An eerie link between two 17th-century clocks has finally been explained, say scientists who have retraced the work of Dutch genius Christiaan Huygens. Huygens invented the pendulum clock in 1657 ...

Then one of Olson's student co-authors noticed that all the images of 17th-century clocks they had been perusing showed clock faces with single hands, not the hour and minute hands found on modern ...

The 17th century sundial at Queen's College in Cambridge, England, is rather special, ... the lantern clock became popular in 17th century England, the first clock to be common in homes.

Well before they became associated with the rat race of modern life, clocks were ornaments of beauty, the privilege of the upper classes. In today's digital age, where nearly everyone can afford ...

As early as the 17th century, clocks were designed to look like a human figure, with the clock set in the stomach. In the 1850s, there was a group of American clocks known as “blinking eyes.” ...

It's 11:59 A.M. on a recent Wednesday and Clare Vincent, a 78-year-old associate curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is perched before an ornate 17th-century clock on the Met's first ...

A 17TH century clock made by a former Mayor of Oxford has been sold at auction for £75,000, more than twice its estimated price. A private collector won a bidding battle against dealers to ...

While the full origins of the cuckoo clock remain unknown, evidence dates similar, though more primitive, objects to at least the mid 17th century – around 100 years before Ketterer’s supposed ...

A 17TH century clock made by a former Mayor of Oxford has been sold at auction for £75,000, more than twice its estimated price.