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The Clockmakers’ Armorial bearings, taken from the original parchment “Grant of Arms”, dated 31st January 1671/2:
“SABLE, A CLOCK YE 4 PILLARS THEREOF ERECTED ON FOUR LYONS, AND ON EACH CAPITALL A GLOBE WITH A CROSSE, AND IN THE MIDDEST AN IMPERIALL CROWNE ALL OR, AND FOR THEIR CREST UPON A HELMET PROPER MANTLED GULES DOUBLED ARGENT AND WREATH OF THEIR COLOURS A SPHEARE OR, THE ARMS SUPPORTED BY THE FIGURES OF A NAKED OLD MAN HOLDING A SCITHE AND AN HOUR GLASSE REPRESENTING TIME, AND OF AN EMPEROUR IN ROABES CROWNED HOLDING A SCEPTER; THEIR MOTTO *TEMPVS RERVM IMPERATOR* |