FINAL ASSEMBLY

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Figure 2 shows a close up of the remontoir cage and weight. This weight is about 4 oz. and is all that's needed to drive the pendulum of 25 lbs. The wheel in the right, foreground drives the pinwheel escape wheel behind it, in effect, making this a two wheeled going train ( Fig. 12). This increases the movement's accuracy. The main going train weight is used only to lift the remontoir cage during it's recoil. Fig. 4 is a close up of the Harrison maintaining power ratchet pawl and hounds tooth maintaining power wheel.

Note in Figs. 7,8,9 the two wheels of identical diameter. They differ only in their thickness. The thicker is the second wheel of the train; the thinner connected to the remontoir fly fan and lock/release lever. This style of identical wheel diameters is seen in in some French skeleton clocks, especially those of the 'great wheel' design.

When I restore a clock I try to stay as close as possible to what it would have looked like at the time of its manufacture. The exception to this is in the area of all of the frame bolts. Normally these are painted the same color as the frame. I choose to polish and lacquer these as shown in Fig. 15, 16, 18 and 19. I also polish all steel arbors.