Featured Slow burn satisfaction....

The perpetual calendar clock is running (albeit with a stop now and again and with the help of a paper clip/nut pendulum bob!!)

Then it was wait to see whether the cog wheel had a trip pin on it (probably not the right term but what I know about clocks wouldn't even fill a page)

The pin appeared on the cog wheel this morning and I reckon it has about another hour or two to go before it meets the lever for the perpetual calendar.

Reckon I could sell tickets for this. Will it be Sunday shortly (ok, it isn't calibrated atm and it thinks it is December) or will it be another groundhog Saturday?

 

I'm on 'pin's and needles.......

 

Somewhat like watching this? . . .
http://smp.uq.edu.au/content/pitch-drop-experiment

 

It's like waiting for a night blooming cereus!

 

Have to watch it later.

 

The suspense is building, not sure if I can take much more. Not sure that you can either

 

The pin doesn't look big enough to trip that lever.

 

Now, Bakers, its not how big it is that counts

 

We...ell...

 

Oh my..,

 

Although the power is almost directly off the main spring barrel, there can be enough resistance to stop the clock if the spring is at all weak or the train generally worn or dirty.

 

Judging from the case and the dirty glass of the calendar this hasn't been serviced in a long while, so I'm quite encouraged that it is working as well as it is. There is an interesting label on the case that makes me think it may not be a marriage after all, I'll try to take photo a bit later

 

Depends on the force applied.... By the gears to move the lever.

 

Still not tripped!

Here is the label on the inside of the case. IF the date is 1884 then £21.10s is worth about £2400 today

 

The label is a price code, xx pounds/xx shillings/ no pence.

I suspect the other numbers are stock numbers. You'd only fine this sort of price code in antiques and junk shops where the seller would expect to haggle and needed their cost as a reminder.

In my opinion the label dates from the 1950s. I'd expect even an informal date to be '84 (similar to that often seen on late 19th C paintings). The price would be about right in the 50s - 60s.

The modification to the movement may date from the same time. The little lamp bulb holders could date from then.

At the time black marble clocks were so unsalable people made garden walls from empty cases. A huge number of 19th C French movements found their way into Spanish period style brass cases. Re-housing the movement in a wooden case would be a typical way of 're-purposing' the movement at the time.

 

Af, I dont know enough about clocks to agree or disagree with you but I'm very grateful for your input.

As for tripping the lever, its getting close

 

"Day tripper yeah."

 

Tripped

Lever back in rest position.


Calendar moved on a day

 

Is this a Brocot Escapement?