A form of escapement in clocks and watches in which the teeth of the crown wheel or balance wheel act on the pallets by recoil.
（钟表的）锚形擒纵轮
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Beginning his experiments around 1658 he had made two significant steps by 1660, namely the use of a balance controlled by a spiral spring and an improved escapement called the anchor escapement.
But by the middle of the seventeenth century, pendulum clocks with an anchor escapement were being manufactured that were accurate to within ten seconds per day.
In another decade, the anchor escapement was perfected by William Clement.
Many early lantern clocks were converted to short pendulum verge escapement later in the 17th Century, and were further converted to long pendulum anchor escapement at a later date.