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Table-clock movement
    • Setting:
      Room V
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italy
    • Date:
      16th cent.
    • Materials:
      iron, wood
    • Dimensions:
      height 135 mm, max. diameter 160 mm
    • Inventory:
      3821
    • Table-clock movement (Inv. 3821)
    • Table-clock movement (Inv. 3821)

Important Italian Renaissance clock movement, recently acquired. The spring mechanism is enclosed in a modern wooden case. The device reproduces a movement first illustrated in the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci.

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