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The Queen's clockmaker, Robert Ball, makes some last minute checks, to a highly complex 1768 astronomical clock made by the clockmaker to George III, Christopher Pinchbeck, and his architect Sir William Chambers, before an exhibition about the monarch (who took a great interest in horology) and Queen Charlotte opens at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. On its four faces, all worked by one comprehensive movement, the clock simultaneously records the time at locations around the world relative to mean time, high and low tides around its seaports, planetary movements and displays the temperature on its orerry dial. 26/3/04: The Queen's clockmaker, Robert Ball checking a unique exhibition of royal treasures from the reign of George III and Queen Charlotte was opening to the public at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. George III's record as one of the greatest patrons of the arts and sciences has been overshadowed by his image as 'the mad king' and the monarch who lost America.
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