He once paid a Swiss dealer $407,000 for one antique clock.

It was the minute hand of some sort of antique clock.

Save for a large antique clock ticking loudly in the dark, the house was quiet.

"The only way an antique clock should be set is forward."

"The man has come for the antique clock, sir," said the servant.

But there never was any thing - only perhaps a mirror or an antique clock.

Part of the reason is also the fact that antique clocks can be very costly.

To keep a house full of antique clocks in work-lng order was not easy.

But the sale today was of antique clocks, and he already knew only too well how slowly the time passed.

He explained with many digressions that they had recently bought an antique clock.