Document Details Rock Crystal Watch with a Cross-Beat Escapement:
Number of documents found: 1
- Title: Rock Crystal Watch with a Cross-Beat Escapement
SubTitle: [An article reprinted from the Metroplitain Museum Journal 15 - Metropolitan Museum of Art 1981, p.193ff] - Author: Bruce Chandler, Clare Vincent
- Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keywords: precision specific escapement clock watch antique
Other Keywords: Buergi Burgi Buergi Bergkristalluhr crossbeat escapement Kreuzschlag Crystalclock
Language: ENG
Notes: A major scholarly article of 8 pages with several black and white illustrations on the most accurate escapement available in the late 16th century and the person who perfected it, Swiss Clockmaker Jost Buergi, working at the courts in Kassel and Praha. Title of article somewhat misleading as the article deals as much with the samples now in Kassel (pre 1600) and Dresden (pre 1600C) than the crystal clock one made for the court in Vienna made 1622-1627.
Edition: 1981, No. 15 -- Copyright: 1981
Kind: Article
Type: Timekeeper (general)
Geographic area: Germany
Topic: History
Organization: Museum
Pages: 8 -- Height in cm: 27
Print Status: 2 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 19276 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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