Monstrance watch

Detail of a monstran clock by Johann Schneider, around 1680, ( Uhrenmuseum (Vienna) )

The monstrance clock (also: mirror clock ) was a popular type of clock of the Renaissance, which was built between 1500 and 1650. It is a table clock, the case of which was made in the form of a monstrance and consisted of chased bronze and chased , partly gold-plated copper or brass sheet. At the beginning of the 17th century, the center of production was the southern German area around Augsburg .

Web links

Commons : Monstrance watch  - collection of images

• Urs Zimmennann: The monstrance clock by the Augsburg master Paulus Braun , exhibited in the Kellenberger clock collection , Winterthur
• Monstrance clock by Jeremias Metzger in the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Monstranuhr on www.uhrenlexikon.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Viktor Pröstler: Callweys manual of the clock types. From the wristwatch to the zappler. Callwey Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7667-1098-2 , p. 94
2. ↑ Fritz von Osterhausen: Callweys lexicon. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7667-1353-1 , p. 214