A regulator clock usually made of wood is an antique vintage timepiece that is wall mounted and driven by a swinging pendulum.
Wall mounted weight driven clocks.
You can find a walnut wood pendulum regulated grandfather clock made in this style or a smaller wooden clock.
Our weight driven clocks have precision brass german movements.
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This section is for weight driven clocks westminster or other 15 minute melodies not chiming the hour on the hour.
The heaviness of a clock s weights powers its movement the network of gears and pins that move the hands of the clock which is regulated by the escapement.
If the clock is chiming prematurely only about 5 minutes or so before it is supposed to chime on most clocks you can just take off the minute hand and turn the bushing that is in the center of the hand one way or another so it is exactly on the hour when it bongs its melodies.
Antique wall clocks of the victorian and edwardian periods are familiar to most people who.
In the 1650s pendulums were added to clocks to make them more accurate.
A regulator clock is a generic term for a wall mounted weight driven clock regulated by a swinging pendulum.
They range from the plain edwardian school clocks to elaborate ormolu mounted french cartel clocks.
This is page one of two in the weight driven wall clocks gallery containing 23 models.
Weight driven clocks came first used in churches and monasteries beginning in the 13th century.
We have single hour strike hour and half hour strike and westminster chime models available.
Invented in the late 18th century to improve upon the accuracy of spring wound clocks.
You can choose from 1 2 or 3 weight clocks.
The basic difference between them is they are either spring driven clocks which mostly run for eight days or weight driven clocks which run for 30 hours.