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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 60513, member: 25&quot;]Crystal Regulator is what&nbsp; they have been called since they were made, so it&#039;s a fair usage, like the well known Ansonia regulators, just a term of the trade.</p><p>Serious regulators are almost always simply timepieces, but not always, and there is no inherent reason why a regulator should not strike, Big Ben bongs loud enough and is a regulator quality clock. The main reason why proper regulators are timepieces is because the extra cost would be wasted.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most typical characteristic of a regulator is weight drive, more constant than the best spring, but a chronometer is spring driven and is certainly a regulator.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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