Continental Globe Clock, c. 1900
7.5 Inch Terrestrial Globe

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Continental 7.5 inch Terrestrial Globe Clock
Germany and Paris: c. 1900
17 inches high overall
8 x 4 inch mahogany base
Sold, please inquire as to the availability of similar items.

The terrestrial globe within equatorial horizon band numbered with the hours of day, and with calibrated half-meridian, full solstice, and equinox bands, raised on a shaped mahogany clock base with round dial and glass bezel.  The clock has a one-day spring movement, time only, no alarm, marked in German Ges. Geschutzt (for “gesetzlich geschützt,” i.e. patent protected), Registered, Depos. 

The globe is unsigned but labeled in French.  It could have been manufactured in France, or in Germany or Czechoslovakia for the French market.  Place names include Empire Russe (Russian Empire) and Etats Unis (United States).   The western part of Oklahoma is shown as Oklahoma and the eastern part as Terr’re Indien (for “Territoire Indien,” i.e., Indian Territory), indicating a date before Oklahoma statehood in 1907.  Oceans are faded blue, geographical entities are cream colored outlined in brown.

Clocks are well suited to be combined with globes because world time is based on the full rotation of the earth once every 24 hours. To use the clock globe set the local time on the dial.  Turn the globe so that the place of use corresponds to the correct time on the equatorial hour circle.  Local time for any place in the world then can calculated.