When it comes to collecting antique clocks, making an informed purchase means knowing about makers and styles, but it also means checking several aspects of the clock to ensure that the example you’ve selected is worth its full value. In this article, discover how to identify the best examples at auction, advice on key makers, and evolution of styles over the course of history. Regardless of whether it is the precision of the “tick” that lights your fancy or the great clockmakers that conjured true works of art with their timepieces that drives you, collecting antique clocks can quickly become a lifelong passion. If you run into any problems in the future, that could be a good potential starting point.Antique clocks provide a satisfying combination of masterful mechanics and brilliant beauty, from striking antique mantel clocks to the gentle cluck emanating from a cuckoo clock. I’m trying to learn as much as I can on the subjectĮdit: This is unrelated to your questions, but it looks like your suspension spring is kinked. Hope this helps clear some things up and I hope you enjoy your new clock! I look forwarding to seeing what more experienced commenters have to say. I believe your clock plays Westminster, Whittington and St. What you labeled as #3 looks like the chime selector lever. It appears that you figured out all the options. I am unfamiliar with this one unfortunately. Maybe there is a feature that I am missing, I have seen some clocks with a rod that lifts the hammers up, allowing the chime to run without the hammers hitting the chime rods. It looks like the strike can only begin after the chime cycle has run and lifts a lever that allows the strike rack to drop. are the silent hours on most clocks that do have the feature.īased on the aforementioned image search, I don’t believe that you can silence the chimes without the strike being silenced as well.

Then take it to 12 again (twelve hours later) and see if it is silent.

One way to find out is to make it strike at 12.

Can’t say for sure if this applies to yours though without seeing the front plate. Both the triple chime and Westminster chime models appear to be lacking a night silence cam on the front plate. I don’t believe that the UW32 series has a night silence option. I want to start by saying congrats on your new clock! I haven’t been apprenticing very long, so take this only as semi knowledgeable assumption.

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