Other Forms
There are numerous other forms represented in the Willard collection here at the Museum. The magnificent Gallery Clock made by Simon Willard for the First Church in Roxbury in 1804, tops this list as simply the best known. Shelf clocks, in standard and miniature case styles, are led by what is probably Simon’s first clock, a simple one-day clock in a cherry case made about 1770; both the patent alarm timepieces or “Lighthouse” clocks demonstrate two distinctly different approaches to case work, and the remarkable Simon Willard clock with manual almanac in the base on loan from the Dedham Historical Society and Museum was a joint effort by Willard and Paul Revere in 1781.
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