The Complication

COMPLICATION IV — THE CARILLON

The Tower

The watch’s cathedral ancestors — astronomical clocks that told a whole town the hour, the saint’s day, and the sky.

The Orloj, Photographed — c. 1880 — Albumen print of the Prague astronomical clock, František Fridrich, c. 1865–1880

c. 1865–1880

The Orloj, Photographed — c. 1880

The medieval clock as the nineteenth century saw it.

The Orloj, Engraved — 1837 — Engraving of the Prague astronomical clock, After Czermak / Kandler, 1837

1837

The Orloj, Engraved — 1837

Prague’s astronomical clock in the age of the print.

The Zytglogge Sketches — 1534 — Sketches of the Zytglogge, Bern, Unknown draughtsman, 1534

1534

The Zytglogge Sketches — 1534

Bern’s clock tower, drawn from life in the 1530s.

Holbein’s Design for a Clocksalt — 1543 — Design for Anthony Denny’s clocksalt, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1543

1543

Holbein’s Design for a Clocksalt — 1543

A clock designed by Holbein, for Henry VIII’s court.

De Vick’s Clock of 1379 — Rees's Cyclopaedia, horology plates, After Abraham Rees (ed.), c. 1810s (depicting 1379)

c. 1810s (depicting 1379)

De Vick’s Clock of 1379

The verge-and-foliot ancestor of every watch.