£179.95
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A quality reproduction that’s exclusive to The Old Map & Clock Company. Featuring an authentic distressed Arabic dial face with GWR logo, unique rich grained case that’s applied by hand onto a heavy engineered wood base, metal hands in keeping with those of the period and glass lens secured with a real brass bezel. Powered by an accurate high torque German quartz movement that’s supplied complete with battery. |
For the London terminus of the Great Western Railway (GWR), Isambard Kingdom Brunel was planning a grand building at Paddington, situated near to both the Grand Junction canal and the Regent’s canal. Instructed by the GWR to economise due to the soaring costs of building the main line, Brunel had to abandon his original plans. More . . .
