Clocks and Timepieces
Pendulum Clocks
1900 New Haven Clock Co. 8-day kitchen clock. "Camden" model. Clock, movement, and stamp. Note the countwheel strike has a slot for hours and half-hours/
Sessions Black Mantle clock, circa 1912. Someone has stripped the case of all of its decorations and then painted it to resemble green marble. First picture shows it bare as I found it, second picture is the movement, a spring-wound 8 day. Clock counts the hours on a coil gong, and sound a single note on a bell at the half. Third picture shows the case after I found some original Sessions feet and some repro lions for the sides. An interesting feature of this clock is that it can be regulated without stopping it.
1950's era 14 day German wall clock.
Cuckoo clocks
This is a 50's or 60's era 3-weight 24 hour clock that plays a melody on a 22-note music movement. First, the cuckoo calls the hour, then the Zither man comes out and plays two tunes, Tannhäuser March, and Lohengrin. The cuckoo bird's call is produced by two bellows-blown whistles tuned and played such that they imitate the call of this bird. A coil gong is also struck.
Another cuckoo clock, probably from the 1970's, has only 2 weights and only counts the hours and half-hours. It is also of 24 hour duration.
Torsion Pendulum Timepieces
1950's era Kundo 400 day clock.
Electric clocks
General Electric Telechron Clock Model 531, "The Lorraine", 1929.
Clock Movements
This section will detail the movements themselves.
Gilbert Movements
These are a few photos showing different details of a typical American 8-day mantle clock. This movement was designed to strike the hours on a gong, and a bell on the half hours. In some pictures, you will note that the hour hammer has been bent to strike the bell.
Striking train:
Train wheels and pinions:
The escapement:
Regulator:
General view of movement:
Sessions Movements
The movement shown here is similar to the one in the complete clock listed above, however, it is designed to strike the half-hour on the same gong that the hours are counted on. T do this and use the same count wheel as the half-hour bell models, an extra arm has been added to hammer shaft so that the cam in the minute arbor will activate it without the use of the strike train. Contrast this to the New Haven clock which used the strike train to strike both the hour and half hour.
Strike train:
Center wheel pinion:
Escapement and Regulator:
General view of movement:
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