On dial: 'Synchronome | Electric | London'. Scratched into reverse of movement: '12/76 | MI4' [?]
Overview
This is an impulse, or subsidiary, dial, which receives time impulses from a controlling clock. It was sold by the Synchronome Company, a major manufacturer of electric clocks and networked time installations during the early twentieth century. The silvered Roman dial is set into an oak case.
Dimensions
7 ½ inch dial
Inventory number
TCW 1079
Date
c.1920s
Bibliography
Robert Miles, Synchronome: Masters of Electrical Timekeeping (Ticehurst: Antiquarian Horological Society, 2011)
