Skeleton clock

A skeleton also called skeleton clock is a clock which provides an insight into the movement. To this end the movement by punching, sawing or milling is reduced such that recesses arise that allow a view into the watch inside.

Description of the types of clocks

Over time almost all types of clocks was the effort to skeletonize the clock to provide insight into the movement. This usually requires a closing event of the movement. Here only the most common skeletal types:

Desk and wall clocks

The skeleton table clock is a clock type has been since about 1750 made ​​in France and later in England and Austria. Mostly, table clocks of different designs have been made ​​in which the work deliberately through the use of narrow and heavily pierced boards is clearly visible. Often such watches are under a glass dome. There are also known skeleton wall clocks ( regulators ). The dials were mostly reduced to narrow chapter rings. Skeletal Stutz watches were in the first half of the 19th JHT. especially popular in France.

Pocket Watches

There were also skeletonized pocket watches and those with open dial. One of the most famous was made by Abraham Louis Breguet for Marie Antoinette. From the mid 19th century pocket watches of this type were made ​​by individual Swiss manufacturers.

Watches

First, there are machine-made watches of this kind which are usually processed easily. On the other hand, there are handmade skeleton watches that are mainly to be found by their time-consuming and complicated production in high-priced watches segment. Some well-known watch manufacturers have such watches manufactured in small series. Hand-skeletonized wristwatch movements often with a watch case back made of sapphire glass (transparent back ) and, as part of the closing event, nor provided with fine engraving or chasing.

Pictures

Face of a skeleton clock

Maschinellskelettierte watch Sea- Gull ST16

Hand-skeletonized wristwatch ( Breguet SA)