WatchTech - Thinking ahead

Thinking ahead

Nov 17, 2015,16:44 PM

So, there is this complicated clock being made.

All that milling and grinding and burnishing must be difficult work and yet, the maker writes: "I prefer the ability to remove the calendar plate, or in this case the Wandering Moon plate and its mechanism, without interfering with the running of the clock. ........Naturally I want to be able to remove the 3rd plate with the Lunar mechanism from the movement and not interfere with the running of the clock."

Is that thinking ahead?

It is probable that the owner will have this clock serviced at least once during the rest of the maker's working life. it must pay to think ahead and engineer for the maintenance cycle as well. That's why we find inspection hatches even on specialised machines.

Regards

MTF

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A David Walter Double Pendulum Clock – Part 14, The Planisphere

By: DonCorson : November 16th, 2015-23:09

David has completed much in the last weeks. Following is the description in Davids own words. For those of you who didn't see the earlier installments of this series, you can catch up by looking here: - Installment 1 – Introduction and Cutting out the pla...

One step closer....

By: blomman Mr Blue : November 17th, 2015-00:55

Thank you, Don and David for another interesting part! Best Blomman

Thinking ahead

By: MTF : November 17th, 2015-16:44

So, there is this complicated clock being made. All that milling and grinding and burnishing must be difficult work and yet, the maker writes: "I prefer the ability to remove the calendar plate, or in this case the Wandering Moon plate and its mechanism, ...

enjoying this series of posts

By: ED209 : November 18th, 2015-07:52

Thanks Don, good report. Regards, ED-209