page_title: Simon Willard clocks
section_title: The clocks
hierarchical_section_title: Simon Willard clocks / The clocks
caption_attribution_description: English: Simon Willard gallery clock, c. 1810, located in the lobby of the White House's West Wing.
context_page_description: Simon Willard clocks were produced in Massachusetts in the towns of Grafton and Roxbury, near Boston, by Simon Willard, a celebrated U.S. clockmaker. Among his many innovations and timekeeping improvements, Simon Willard is best known for inventing the eight-day patent timepiece that came to be known as the gallery or banjo clock.
caption: A c. 1810 Simon Willard gallery clock in the lobby of the West Wing of the White House.
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