Longcase clock
The longcase clock, in which the long pendulum and the weights got a case of their own.
The anchor escapement, which arrived around 1670, needed only a small swing and made a long pendulum possible. To protect pendulum and weights, the movement was put into a tall case.
The longcase clock became the great clock of 18th-century middle-class homes in England and spread to the Netherlands, Scandinavia and North America. The Swedish Mora clock is a relative.
Materials: Case of oak, walnut or mahogany; movement of brass and steel
Manufacture: The movement was made by a clockmaker, the case by a joiner; the name on the dial is the clockmaker’s.
The shape of the dial: square before the 1770s, then often with an arch.
The anchor escapement and the seconds pendulum, about a metre long.
The clockmaker’s name and town on the dial.