MADAM – Now the journalistic ‘silly season’ is with us and you have recently curtailed discussion about ‘ordinaries’ and ‘longcases’ (I thought this could tick on for longer, having my own now unpublished theories) may I introduce other subjects to fill the void.
1. To salerooms, and others, illustrating clocks and watches: please take the trouble to move hands to ten past ten or ten to two. These are the only times when the hands are unlikely to obscure each other, maker’s name, address, town/city, number and positions of winding squares and subsidiary dials. Such visual information is more useful to a potential buyer than a brief, often uninformed, caption.
2. To distinguish between a clock and a timepiece, and between a strike and a chime.