Clocktime Vallin Astrological Table Clock c1600, 01 Introduction
Channel: Dr John C Taylor
Date: 2024-04-02

Nicholas Vallin – Gilt drum table clock with 24-hour silver chapter ring, 365-day gilt calendar, silver zodiac, gilt moon age and phase.

Join Dr John C Taylor OBE from the Clocktime digital museum as he introduces the Vallin Astrological Table Clock, c1600. 

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I'd like to share with you this wonderful little clock, and if I think it was wonderful, what on earth did people think 400 years ago when it was made in London by Nicholas Vallin? It was made in about 1600, just in the last few years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and it's still, I think, the most astounding little clock. It's a little drum case with animals running around the edge, but when you open it, you've got a 24-hour dial, 360° calendar, and all the phases of the moon and the Zodiac to have a look at. So, this little clock was made in London 400 years ago by candlelight without spectacles, by wonderful craftsmen.