Accession No

0389

Brief Description

horizontal dial (”Sunwatch”), by Ansonia Clock Company, English, c. 1927

Origin

England; London; 23 Fore St. E. C.

Maker

Ansonia Clock Company

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1922

Latest Date

1927

Inscription Date

Material

metal (aluminium alloy, steel); glass; paper

Dimensions

length 79 mm; breadth 51 mm; height 9 mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased by Robert Stewart Whipple in 1927. Likely purchased new.

Inscription

[On face of dial:] ‘MANUFACTURED BY THE ANSONIA CLOCK CO USA’
‘SUNWATCH’
‘PATENT PENDING’
[On Cover of booklet:] ‘GREAT BRITAIN
AND THE
IRISH FREE STATE
THE ANSONIA SUNWATCH
PATENT PENDING
MANUFACTURED BY
THE ANSONIA CLOCK CO.,
23 FORE STREET, LONDON, E. C.
MAIN OFFICE: 99 JOHN STREET,
NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A.

Description Notes

Horizontal dial (”Sunwatch”) for use in Great Britain and Ireland, by Ansonia Clock Co., English, c. 1927.

Aluminium alloy hinged case; gold-paint finish. In lid a printed table of latitudes for 33 towns in Great Britain and Ireland, with latitude, longitude and magnetic variation; also table for the equation of time. On the dial plate hour scales for 51˚ N, 54˚ N and 57˚ N, each divided 5 - 12, 1 - 7, numbered by 1, subdivided to 15 minutes. Folding gnomon marked for 51˚, 54˚ and 57˚. Inset compass with 8 points marked, degree scale around North for magnetic variation divided 40˚ - 0 - 40˚, numbered by 10˚, divided to 5˚. Paper instruction booklet fits in lid.

Inscribed, on the face of the dial:
‘MANUFACTURED BY THE ANSONIA CLOCK CO USA’
‘SUNWATCH’
‘PATENT PENDING’
Inscribed, on the cover of the booklet:
‘GREAT BRITAIN
AND THE
IRISH FREE STATE
THE ANSONIA SUNWATCH
PATENT PENDING
MANUFACTURED BY
THE ANSONIA CLOCK CO.,
23 FORE STREET, LONDON, E. C.
MAIN OFFICE: 99 JOHN STREET,
NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A.

Condition: good; complete.

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