I’ve finally bought myself my first clock - an ATO electric clock from the mid 20th century, with this beautiful hammered effect backboard and domed acrylic front. Very evocative of the domed plexiglass seen on watches of the period.
I’ve recently been working on this lovely bracket clock by James McCabe. It was brought to me because of a problem with the striking mechanism - when wound the clock would strike continuously until it ran out of power. There are a number of things that could cause this but it was agreed that the clock would also be serviced while it was in the workshop, as it was evident that there was a lot of very dark oil and wear which could be seen simply by looking at the backplate.
I recently was working on a late 1700s watch that was missing a ratchet wheel for the fusee and it’s retaining screw. There was also some damage to the locating pin and a lot of scratches on the surface the wheel would have sat on. The damage needed repairing and the wheel and screw replacing. You can see in the drawing below the wheel would be just 8.7mm in diameter - quite a challenge!
