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Tower Clock Collection, Page Five
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detail.
Most are for sale! You must arrange for pickup in Chicago.
Jean Baptiste Schwilgué, Strasbourg, France. 1856
SOLD |
Unknown, probably US, c. 1900 SOLD |
Franz Stiehl, Speising (Vienna), Austria, 1890 SOLD |
Single train, Graham deadbeat escapement. 30 hour duration.
10"w x 16.5"h x 7.5"d |
Single train, Graham deadbeat escapement. 1/2 second pendulum.
Designed to drive a dial on both front and back sides. 5"w x 11.5"h x 5"d
(7" at base with mounting holes). SOLD |
Three train, perpendicular-mounted pinwheel escapement
(missing). Quarter, count-wheel strike. Helical toothed wheels driving worm geared pinions
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Schwilgué, Strasbourg, France, 1884
SOLD |
Lorenz Förster, Nürnberg, Germany, c. 1880
SOLD |
G. Schweppenhäuser, Frankfurt, Germany,
1877. SOLD |
Single train, Graham deadbeat escapement, eight day duration,
bolt & shutter maintaining power, 30 second differential remontoire. 12"w x
20"h x 11"d |
Three train, using 'free swinger' pendulum arrangement
employing a count wheel to impulse the pendulum every 40 seconds, bolt & shutter
maintaining power. Eight day duration. 26.5"w x 40"h x 21"d.
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Single train, Pinwheel escapement, one day duration, bolt
& shutter maintaining power. 11 1/4"w x 25"h x 11"d.
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Johann Lindner, Kandern, Germany, 1893
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Single train, Graham deadbeat escapement, eight day duration,
bolt & Shutter maintaining power, 30 second differential remontoire. 13 1/2"w x
21 3/4"h x 12"d. |
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