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  2. Conservation and restoration of clocks - Wikipedia

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    [8] Clock cases, which come in many different materials, require special consideration and treatment in their own right. Conservators further advise not exposing a clock to a heat source of any kind, including strong sunlight or a mantel over a working fire, as this can cause damage to the clock cases and movements. [8]

  3. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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    A mechanical movement contains all the moving parts of a watch or clock except the hands, and in the case of pendulum clocks, the pendulum and driving weights. The movement is made of the following components: [2] Power source Either a mainspring, or a weight suspended from a cord wrapped around a pulley.

  4. Wheel train - Wikipedia

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    In striking clocks, the striking train is a gear train that moves a hammer to strike the hours on a gong. It is usually driven by a separate but identical power source to the going train. In antique clocks, to save costs, it was often identical to the going train, and mounted parallel to it on the left side when facing the front of the clock. [11]

  5. Chauncey Jerome - Wikipedia

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    A one-day wood-cased clock, which sold for six dollars, had helped put the company on the map. A year later his company was selling that same clock for four dollars. By 1841 the company was showing an annual profit of a whopping $35,000, primarily from the sale of brass movements. A 19th-century Chauncey Jerome clock

  6. Anchor escapement - Wikipedia

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    The escapement is a mechanism in a mechanical clock that maintains the swing of the pendulum by giving it a small push each swing, and allows the clock's wheels to advance a fixed amount with each swing, moving the clock's hands forward. The anchor escapement was so named because one of its principal parts is shaped vaguely like a ship's anchor.

  7. Self Winding Clock Company - Wikipedia

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    The movements were mounted in cases of various designs, often in case styles similar to those of companies like Seth Thomas and E. Howard. [4] The SWCC appears to have been manufacturing their own clock movements by 1892, for they are all stamped "Self Winding Clock Co". Earlier movements were stamped with Seth Thomas or E. Howard markings. [5]

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