n today’s digital age, it is easy to forget that clocks were once considered so important that they were almost always displayed prominently in one’s home, a domestic tradition that was born in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Often a combined effort between clockmakers, who were responsible for the movements that allowed a clock to tell time, and craftsmen, who designed and built the cases that housed a clock’s movement, clocks intended for use at home were limited early on to
