Note 1099 — CLOCKS AND WATCHES1089 (ADDITIONAL).
William Johnston translation
To the time of queen Elizabeth clocks were often called orologes:
He’ll watch the horologe a double set, If drink rock not his cradle.—Othello, act ii. sc. 3.
by which the double set of twelve hours on a clock is plainly alluded to, as not many more than twelve can be observed on a dial; and in the same tragedy this last time-measurer is called by its proper name:
More tedious than the dial eight score times.—Ibid. act iii. sc. 4.
The clock of Wells cathedral is also, to this day, called the horologe.