This English chiming console clock was made in the workshop of Edward Stenton in the 1670s. It has only a single hour hand. The appearance of a minute hand, making it possible to tell the time more precisely, was the next stage in the development of clock-making. Russia traditionally had a complex system of counting hours and days that Peter I replaced with the Western one in 1706. Midday and midnight became the reference points and the clock face was divided into 12 hours instead of the previous 17.