a fat clock

Twenty past one in the morning on New Year’s Day. Magnus knew the time because of the fat clock, his mother’s clock, which squatted on the shelf over the fire. In the corner the raven in the wicker cage muttered and croaked in its sleep. Magnus waited. The room was prepared for visitors, the fire banked with peat and on the table a bottle of whisky and the ginger cake he’d bought in Safeway’s the last time he was in Lerwick.
Source: Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

What would you call a fat clock? Any clock that is used on kitchen wall or specifically below pictured clock?



Thank you.

It is describing the shape of the clock - saying it was fat indicates that it was wide rather than tall. It tells us nothing about the design of the clock, and has nothing to do with it being in the kitchen.

I expect it was more like this one, a common style of clock found on mantelpieces all over Britain. However the description does not give us much to go on, and there are several other types of clock that could be called "fat":

Thank you. I am busy sampling Ann Cleeves’ writing style, in preparation for my next book reading.

It was an old clock, his mother's clock. We don't know when it was made. I imagine something like the pic in post #3.