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Title: What kind of clock is this?
Post by: SimmerinLightning on January 07, 2018, 07:37:22 PM
Just saw this clock in an episode of Gunsmoke. What would the numbers around the periphery be for? I'm thinking maybe it somehow tracks the day of the month, but I don't see an extra hand for that or any other way that it actually indicates what day it is. What else could it possibly be for though?
Title: Re: What kind of clock is this?
Post by: Baltimore Ed on January 07, 2018, 08:37:39 PM
Here's one with all the gizmos. Pretty clever.
Title: Re: What kind of clock is this?
Post by: SimmerinLightning on January 07, 2018, 08:55:16 PM
Quote from: Baltimore Ed on January 07, 2018, 08:37:39 PM
Here's one with all the gizmos. Pretty clever.
Holy cow I bet there are a thousand little gears in that thing.

I wonder what the really tiny face just below center is for. Can't quite make out the details.
Title: Re: What kind of clock is this?
Post by: Professor Marvel on January 08, 2018, 03:22:32 AM
Quote from: SimmerinLightning on January 07, 2018, 08:55:16 PM
Holy cow I bet there are a thousand little gears in that thing.

I wonder what the really tiny face just below center is for. Can't quite make out the details.

main dial indicates day of the month

top sub-dial is standard clock
left  subdial is Day of Week
right subdial is phase of moon
bottom subdial is  complicated
   - inner ring indicates month
   -outer ring indicates week of the year (out of 52)
   -middle ring indicates "Day of the Month at the End of Every Seven Days"

tiny sub-subdial  between Dec and Jan is the "sweep second hand"

yhs
prof marvel