{"id":859,"date":"2015-07-23T23:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gudemeis.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2015-07-23T23:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T21:49:16","slug":"trouvaille-a-clock-with-a-decimal-timepiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gudemeis.com\/en\/trouvaille-a-clock-with-a-decimal-timepiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouvaille; A clock with a decimal timepiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; style=&#8221;&#8221; visibility=&#8221;&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; typo_style=&#8221;&#8221; drop_shadow=&#8221;&#8221; bg_style=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A rare timepiece,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although it is not uncommon to find clocks that are unusual, this one really fitted in the \u2018never seen before\u2019 category. The \u2018regulator\u2019 dial is unusual for table clocks. This is a dial which has several callibrations for the different hands to make reading it more easy. It is the decimal numbering that makes this clock very rare. This means that the dial reads 10 hours of 100 minutes of 100 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There was a short period in history during the French Revolution, when decimal time was introduced in stead of our present dodecimal time based on 12. But it never caught hold and was abandoned due to public disobedience, the lack of actual decimal clocks and the common resistance that people hold to change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But this clock isn\u2019t French and wasn\u2019t made at the end of the 18th Century! To our opinion this clock was made in Germany around 1840. This is based on the way the movement and case are built. Now arises the question; what was this timepiece used for? What clues can find in the unusual handle on top and the two screws tot he sides?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The handle obviously was used to transport the clock so this timepiece was made for use on location. The screws tot he sides make the clock tick regularly when the surface is not level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A remark about the astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace (founder of modern astronomy who lived from 1749 until 1827) who had a decimal watch which he used for all his observations and calculations. Because of this, astronomical observations are still noted in decimals. This could well mean that this timepiece was used for astronomical observations on a temporary location.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; style=&#8221;&#8221; visibility=&#8221;&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; typo_style=&#8221;&#8221; drop_shadow=&#8221;&#8221; bg_style=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text] A rare timepiece, Although it is not uncommon to find clocks that are unusual, this one really fitted in the \u2018never seen before\u2019 category. The \u2018regulator\u2019 dial is unusual for table clocks. This is a dial which has several callibrations for the different hands to make&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trouvaille; A clock with a decimal timepiece - Gude &amp; Meis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gudemeis.com\/en\/trouvaille-a-clock-with-a-decimal-timepiece\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trouvaille; A clock with a decimal timepiece - Gude &amp; Meis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; style=&#8221;&#8221; visibility=&#8221;&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; typo_style=&#8221;&#8221; drop_shadow=&#8221;&#8221; bg_style=&#8221;&#8221; border_style=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text] A rare timepiece, Although it is not uncommon to find clocks that are unusual, this one really fitted in the \u2018never seen before\u2019 category. 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