verge escapements
Identification code: 300205406
Hierarchy classification:
Alternative term/s
- crown wheel escapements
- crown-wheel escapements
- escapements, crown wheel
- escapements, crown-wheel
- escapements, verge
- verge escapement
Anotations
Scope note:
Clock and watch escapements in which the pallet axis is set at right angles to the axis of the escape wheel; probably the earliest type of escapement and now obsolete.
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