This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Bracket clock" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(June 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Abracket clock is a style of antique portable tableclock made in the 17th and 18th centuries.^[1] The term originated with small weight-driven pendulum clocks (sometimes called 'true bracket clocks') that had to be mounted on abracket on the wall to allow room for their hanging weights.^[2] When spring-driven clocks were developed, which didn't require hanging weights to power them, they continued to be made in the bracket style. Often they are composed of two matching pieces created as an ensemble: theclock and its small decorative shelf. They are almost always made of wood, oftenebony, and often ornamented withormolu mounts, brassinlay, wood or tortoise shell veneer, or decorativevarnish. Since in their day clocks were expensive, and a household would not have one in every room, bracket clocks usually had handles to carry them from room to room.

These clocks were almost alwaysrepeaters, that isstriking clocks which could be made to repeat the striking of the hours at the pull of a lever or cord. This feature was used before artificial illumination to tell what time it was at night. However, because they were often used in bedrooms where the hourly striking of the bell could disturb sleepers, they either had a knob to silence the hourly striking, or did not strike on the hour at all but only at the pull of the cord. These were called 'silent pull repeaters'.

• Lantern clock
• Carriage clock
• Mantel clock

• Media related toBracket clocks at Wikimedia Commons

• Clock designs

• Articles needing additional references from June 2007
• All articles needing additional references
• Commons category link is on Wikidata