Clocktime: Quare's Year Going Boulle Longcase c1695, 01 Introduction

Daniel Quare - Boulle longcase with year-going and striking movement.
Join Dr John C Taylor OBE from the Clocktime digital museum as he introduces Quare’s Year Going Boulle Longcase, circa 1695.
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This year going clock was made by Daniel Quare, London clockmaker in about 1695 and Quare acquired a really international reputation for making wonderful clocks for royalty, so much so that the guest list for his daughter's wedding included many of the crown princes of Europe. So, he was very well known, very well favoured amongst the royalty and he specialised in such wonderful clocks as this one here. It's a year going clock and he appears to have made more year going clocks than all his contemporaries put together. And this one is slightly shorter than most of them, it's a mere 8 foot 6, just over 3 metres, whereas some of his continental style clocks, where you have a double caddy top and then finials coming out of the top as well, they required a 12 foot ceiling height to house them. So, this is a much simpler design of clock, although it still goes for 375 days, 10 days more than a year, so you had a few spare days if you forgot to wind it. And it does something like 56,000 bell strikes in the year and it's run off a 22 kilogram weight.