One of my finest clocks. A Jeweler’s regulator with dead beat escapement and maintaining power.
Jeweler's Regulator
Not sure exactly what age this is, best guess is late 1800’s. I rebuilt and cleaned the movement and discovered that the maintaining power (MP) spring had failed. A previous tinkerer had fashioned a bent piece of wire as a substitute, forcing the maintaining wheel and main wheel apart. I have removed the bent wire and pinned the two wheels together temporarily while I hunt the world for a replacement MP spring. Any suggestions are welcome!
Some minor repairs were done to the case. A type of vinyl had been adhered to the inside of the clock case. I removed it and stained the interior with a dark stain to highlight the brass pendulum and weight. The pendulum on this clock is the heaviest I have ever seen; it is solid lead and brass. The face is porcelain, with a sweeping second hand.
(UPDATE: 27 January 2009) We have replaced the maintaining power spring on this clock and it is now back to its original condition. We are very pleased.
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5 responses so far ↓
John // March 14, 2009 at 12:25 am |
Nice clock collection! I like the pictures of the movements in addition to the case pictures that you have throughout the site.
regards,
John J.
steve // June 22, 2009 at 11:42 am |
Lovely clocks and well done
do you sell any of them time to time ? I am after a Steth Thomeas long drop as I also think they look terrific.
Regarsd
STEVE
duetime // June 22, 2009 at 4:02 pm |
Thanks so much for your kind words!
Afraid we don’t sell our clocks very often . . .
Peter Grant // September 22, 2009 at 7:39 pm |
Hi,
You certainly have an interesting collection. Thanks for sharing it. I see you have a couple of Gledhill-Brook recorders. I have one too, rather like your ‘top half’, but complete – or at least it was complete until the mainspring snapped. Do you know of anyone who might be able to supply a mainspring for one of these?Mine is a non-fusee movement: the spring is about 30mm wide and about 3.5m long, and not in a barrel. I haven’t been able to track down anything here in the UK (yet) but wondered if there is some likely source elsewhere. Any advice will be much appreciated as I am really missing the healthy tick of my kitchen clock.
Best regards,
Peter Grant
duetime // September 22, 2009 at 8:36 pm |
Thank you so much for visiting our blog!
You may try one of these sites. These are the companies from which I purchase my clock supplies and they sell to the UK:
http://www.merritts.com/store4/public/default.aspx
http://www.timesavers.com/
Take care!