Oddities

Horrors

This horrible bush for the fly was made with
a screw, and not even drilled through.
Belgian longcase clock, 18th Century, by
Nicolas de Beefe à Malines


This Belgian longcase, signed
JD Cornille à Bruxelles
has really suffered under the hands
of amateurs:
The square of the minute hand was
actually applied as a disgarded ratched
wheel soldered underneath;
The bushing of the main plate for the
barrel arbor has been applied externally
as a digarded barrel cap, screwed on;
the minute wheel bridge is made of
a rudimentary folded steel plate;
to move a wheel on its arbor, why
not bend its arms?
My oh my.....


This movenment plate was 'adapted' in
a very artistic way to fit the dial and
case of this gothic-style French clock,
late 19th-C.


This broken anchor was soldered together
and reinforced with a bridge of steel
wire. What a lot of hassle instead of
making a new anchor, as we did in our
workshop.
Charles X-period French portico clock.


There's nothing like a bit of soldering
to make sure this ratchet wheel
holds onto its arbor, on this
English dial clock signed
James Watkins & Son, Southwark.


Barrel crown wheel from this fine Louis XV
cartel d'applique, strike side.
49 teeth repaired out of a total of 96!
Obvious cause: a mainspring far too strong.


A dodgy way to prolong the pendulum rod of
this skeleton clock.
At least this part is hidden in the pendulum bob,
but never the less....


The best way to bring the alarm escape
wheel closer to its anchor for
good functioning is to
cut into the mainplate and then
to bend the lot...
French low-end Carriage clock
with cylinder escapement.

 

 

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