[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As daylight saving ends in the UK for 2020, the horological conservator at Windsor Castle will be busy changing more than 400 clocks from the Royal Collection Trust. For those of us with smartphones and smartwatches, the change to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on Sunday 25 October will happen automatically whilst we sleep. But for the hundreds of clocks in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle,...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] John Redfern is an antiquarian horologist, animator and film-maker, with more than 40 years experience as a restorer and 25 years of animation and filming; working with some of the finest and most interesting clocks in the world. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Below is a short animation of John Harrison's Grasshopper Escapement created for an exhibition at the Royal Society London in June 2006.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] John Redfern is an antiquarian horologist, animator and film-maker, with more than 40 years experience as a restorer and 25 years of animation and filming; working with some of the finest and most interesting clocks in the world. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text]Below is a short clip of the escapement in action and created for Anthony Randall for a lecture, first given to the Antiquarian Horological Society at West...
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