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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 372506, member: 25&quot;]The dial design copies that of the original 17th C. weight driven clocks with verge escapements where time keeping to the minute was just impossible. The earlier clocks had just one hand and the marks were for quarter hours, as near as they could reasonably get to accuracy. My&nbsp; avatar picture is of an 18th C lantern clock dial.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Smiths clocks date from the 1950s, they are smaller than the originals and have a spring driven movement with a platform lever escapement that would be no noisier than a carriage clock.</p><p>They are fairly common in Britain and of reasonably good quality but do not fetch much money. They were available in at least three sizes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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