Q. My great aunt, who had a wonderful eye and loved antiques, owned these two clocks. They're both quite heavy, with glass doors on front and back. They haven't been wound in years and I'm not ...

In RECUT: Crocker Art Museum, Part 2, Ralph Pokluda appraises a French Water Wheel Clock, ca. 1880. Aired 04/22/2022. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.

“Roseville Clock Shop said it was French, a few hundred years old. It’s running great now, but needs to be wound every other day per the repair man.

A. This is a French mantle clock, by Miroy Freres of Paris, and it dates to the Napoleon III period (1852-1870). It is ornamented with Boulle work, a rich style of inlay developed by French ...

What’s It Worth: cuckoo clock, French chest. BY JAY MOORE Special correspondent Oct 20, 2013 Oct 20, 2013 Updated Sep 18, 2019; 0; 1 of 2 ...

Appraisal: French Pendulum Clock, ca. 1865, from Vintage Baltimore. Check out Gordon S Converse's appraisal of this French pendulum clock, ca. 1865, in Vintage Baltimore.

The first “mystery clock” was made by a French magician, Jean Robert-Houdin, in 1845. Many other versions followed. Junghans, a German clock factory, made most of those seen today.

Everybody knows that there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in minute.* But in 1793, the French smashed the old clock in favor of French Revolutionary Time: a 10-hour ...

The French clock arrived in San Miguel during an era now called the Porfiriato — named for General Porfirio Díaz, who ruled Mexico for more than three decades starting in 1876.