Schatz, founded in 1881, are the world’s leading manufacturer of classic ships’ clocks, barometers, and associated instruments. They are particularly renowned for their eight-day mechanical chiming movements, and have supplied both commercial and naval fleets for many years.
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Our porthole instruments have hefty solid cast brass casings, hinged scuttle clamps, bevelled glass fronts and our trademark brass hands and black subsidiary indicators on light cream faces. The movements are good quality – battery-operated quartz for the clocks and silvered aneroid for the barometers. They offer excellent quality at mid-range prices.
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Elegant telescopes based on traditional designs, but functional with more modern optics.
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In the days of sail, precision-made instuments such as Sextants, Compasses, and Sundials were essential for safe navigation and exploration.
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You’ll be in no doubt about the forecast for the coming day ”Weather Girl” dresses (and undresses!) to show you what to expect from playing on the beach to building snowmen.
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Our distinctive ornamental (but functional) thermometers utilise 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei’s discovery that the density of liquids varies with temperature. Carefully weighted glass globes are suspended in a liquid-filled tube, where they sedately sink or float as the surrounding air gets hotter or colder.
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