Family / house

Antiquarian Horological Society

Armiger / bearer

Antiquarian Horological Society

Entity type

corporation

Heraldic authority

College of Arms

Record basis

grant

Issued / first recorded

26 September 2023

Historical period

21st century

Blazon

Gules issuant in dexter base the arc of a Clock’s Gear Wheel Or the teeth engaging in sinister chief the teeth of a Pinion Argent.

Plain-English description

A red shield showing the arc of a gold clock gear rising from the lower right, engaging with the silver teeth of a pinion in the upper left.

Tinctures

Gules; Or; Argent

Charges / ordinaries

Clock gear wheel; Pinion

Crest

Issuant from a Clock’s Crown Wheel Or the arbor Argent a Sun in Splendour Or.

Exterior ornaments

Supporters: Dexter a representation of Minerva holding a Mercury pendulum; sinister an owl crowned and chained, holding an hourglass; both stand on a steel weighted foliot compartment. Badge: Within a circlet of lily and anemone flowers, an owl’s face Argent beaked and crowned Or.

Source reference

College of Arms, November 2023 Newsletter no. 73

Source

Open source

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources