Main dial: ruins in corners; two ships at sea breakarch.
Images of dials made by Thomas Hadley Osborne, a Birmingham dial maker who started his own dial manufactory after the dissolution of the Wilson & Osborne partnership in 1777.
Images of dials made by Richard Blood, a Birmingham dial maker.
Images of dials made by William Francis, a Birmingham dial maker active in the 1810s–1830s.
Image of a dial made by Josiah Hayes, a Birmingham dial maker active in the nineteenth century.
Images of dials made by George Walker or Walker & Company, Birmingham dial makers active around 1810.
Images of dials made by Walker & Hughes, a partnership of Birmingham dial makers, George Walker and Thomas Hughes, established around 1812.
Images of dials made by William Wood, a Birmingham dial maker active c1820.
Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) has been known from 2021 as "Watches and Wonders".
Also includes cover letter.
Some, but not all images are also included in BRO/A/15/001.
Originally published in Alte und moderne Zeitmessung, no. 5/6 (Callwey Verlag, Munich, 1991).
With autographs of event attendees.
CD-Rom, originally included in the pack, is missing.
Also includes cover letter.
Includes "SIHH 2002" CD-Rom. Also includes an annotated draft version of the "Reverso Septantième" description.
Part of press kit.
Also includes correspondence and photocopy promotional materials.
Includes the company's history, descriptions of its watches, list of official agents, and a retail price list for "Lange 1", "Arkade", "Saxonia", "1815", and "Lange-Tourbillon" watches.
Includes "A. Lange & Söhne: the rebirth of a famous name", a draft article by G. Brooks with handwritten notes, and six articles on various aspects of the company history. Also includes 14 framed and captioned 35mm slides mainly of Lange watches and company directors; a damaged unframed slide of a Lange watch; a colour photograph of Wempe watch and jewellery shop; and photocopy pages from a Lange catalogue.
Also includes reproductions of Paris-Matinal and The New York Herald 1927 issues with articles on Charles Lindbergh's flight and the flight map, and newspaper articles.
In an envelope addressed by Patek Philippe to G. Brooks.
Also includes cover letters.
2007 reprint of 2002 edition.
Also includes handwritten card.
A brief treatise on the transition from pocket watches to wristwatches.
Includes note on sources and abbreviations. Names include Nicholas Kratzer, Anthony Crasillon, Sebastian (Bastian) Lesseney (Lesney / Le Sene) , Nicholas Urseau, Peter Dellamere, Bartholomew Newsam, Randolph Bull and others.
Names include mainly Thomas Herbert, but also Mansell Bennett, Thomas Tompion and Joseph Antram.
This series comprises images of clock dials made by known Birmingham makers.
The dials have been categorised by Frances Tennant into the following dial types:
12 o'clock moon, Arched with moon, Automata, Birds in arch, Brass arched, Brass arched moon, Brass square, Gesso in arch, High oval in arch, Low oval in arch, Moon dial, Other arch, Other dial type, Oval dial, Picture in arch, Round dial, Square dial.
This series comprises notes and transcripts of fourteenth to eighteenth-century sources relating to clockmaking and watchmaking.
This was a large brass dial with head and foliage spandrels; mechanism had been altered. Moon faces and ship and scene proved to be printed on paper, stuck on with rubber cement then varnished over with brown varnish and highlights on moon faces added. A lot of the original painting was pulled off removing paper, but enough was left to restore this rathe crude moon dial.
Very early, museum piece. Main dial: interesting skeletonised dial.
Whole clock, Dogman in USA, Samuel Jackson(?). Rolling eyes.
All painted moon with moon's age on outside of moon dial, which has mid-blue sky with stars.
Main dial: eight-day, gold bronze background, windmills in gold at corners, rainbow sky fully painted centre; horseman jumping gate in breakarch.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train, matted and engraved centre, heavy foliage, interim markings, inside chapter ring markings, minute band, hole cut in dial for seconds disk; square decorated date aperture, name on applied piece in arch, large head and foliage spandrels. Moon painted centre with comet, engraved edge.
Main dial: eight-day two-train arched dial with moon, painted centre, square date aperture, Rococo spandrels, name on silvered applied piece in arch, moons age on dial; silvered and engraved maps on hemisphere, simple oak case.
Slide 232 shows ceramic plates illustrating The Potter's Art, displayed next to the clock shown in slides 166, 167, 168, 169 and 231.
Moon scenes: sailing ship, church with tower.
Deacon movement for dial shown in slides 234 and 235.
Painted moon dial with stars on dark-blue background. Moon dial faces: sad moon, sour expression.
Main dial: two-train, matted centre, interim markings, outer markings on chapter ring, cherub-head spandrels, separate seconds ring, large bell.
Complicated clock, belonged to Ernest L Edwards, given to Merseyside Museum. Slide 281 shows dirty varnish on moon, 283 fully cleaned. Very fine professionally done painting. Moon has tiny mouth, vigorously painted waterfall on one side with leaning pine trees, street scene on other side.
Moon scenes: sailing ship, house.
Main dial: square-towered churches corners; church with sheep centre.
All-painted moon dial, very damage, with two landscapes. Quite well painted.
Main dial: eight-day, two-train arched dial with moon, matted dial centre. Large ringed winding holes may have been altered as are off-centre; enormous date aperture, applied seconds ring in centre; head and foliage spandrels.
Main dial: ruins with orange leaning trees in corners; huntsman doffing cap in breakarch. Well painted.