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Timothy Brameld, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., 1981. movement 15"h x 8.5"w x 5.5" d, 18.5"h with base and dome. Graham deadbeat escapement with 40 second spring remontoire. According to Roberts this movement was made on commission and was based on a clock made over a century earlier by James Clark, also of Edinburgh in 1828 for the Cape Wrath Lighthouse, Scotland; the most northerly in the country. 1 The calendar work was included because of the tendency of the lighthouse keepers to loose track of the day in such remote locations over extended periods of time. That clock is currently in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh and an inquiry to the museum revealed that Mr. Clark made a series of twelve of those clocks for installation in Scotland's lighthouses. A second example is in the headquarters of the Northern Lighthouse Board also in Edinburgh. There are no other known examples of this early work by Brameld.

Mr. Brameld did not make an exact copy. In his movement he incorporated a 40 second spring remontoire, and an escapement pallet depthing adjustment which were absent in Clark's design; some very minor changes to the frame as well as a cylindrical bob verses the lenticular one used in Clark's movement. This clock was made very early on in Brameld's career and in fact there is no earlier recorded example of his work. He later went on to produce a limited series of table clocks and high quality precision wall regulators and was awarded a "Certificate of Excellence" by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers for one such regulator clock in November 1987.

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Below is the photo from Roberts' book.

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1. Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Derek Roberts, pg. 221