Manual wind clocks and turning back the time
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oldaunt
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Turn it forward 11 hours.
Oh yes, the thought crossed my mind, but considering the needless wear-and-tear on the movement holds me back from performing such.
My solution for years has been to allow the clock to run out of steam, then try and remember to set it once the current time marginally exceeds the stopped time of the clock.
fuzzybuddy
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- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
Mechanical (non electric) clocks/watches are not designed to be turned back. There's no reverse gear. As old aunt says, you have to turn it forward 11 hours. If it is a clock with a chime, when advancing you should let the clock complete each hour's chiming, before advancing to the next hour. If the clock doesn't chime from 10PM-6AM, you will have to advance 23 hours.
Yes, it chimes, and as you mentioned, FB, I never wind the movement while the clock is chiming, and of course I never overwind.
Thank you for weighing in on this for me.
fuzzybuddy
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- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
If you're like me, there's nothing like the sound of tick, tick, tick, tick............Yes, it chimes, and as you mentioned, FB, I never wind the movement while the clock is chiming, and of course I never overwind.
Thank you for weighing in on this for me.
I sure am, and right from the time I was a young child.
I find it relaxing, almost meditative, and the chimes are special. Everything nowadays is electric and none of it warms me quite like an old-fashioned key-wound clock with chimes does.
Tommy
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- New Hampshire
To "fall back", I simply stop the pendulum at a convenient time the day before the time change. Then the next day, at the appropriate time, I just restart it.
Not a "one and done", but it's easy for me and easy on the 120 year old clock.
Not a "one and done", but it's easy for me and easy on the 120 year old clock.
That's me a T.It's strange, my clock ticks away merrily and I don't seem to hear it, but when it stops, I do then hear the silence.
The ticking of our old clock fills the room pleasantly with it's warm ticking sound, and the ticking sound emits quietly right into the kitchen.
For me it's the absense of the chimes that garner my attention. Ever since I was a young child, hearing the chimes of an old-fashioned wind-up clock never failed to make me stop whatever I was doing to take in the soothing sound.
That's a shame.
Having something so special from your dad, I would see about getting it looked at. Being that its a small clock with a small mechanical movement, my bet is it wouldn't cost much to have it repaired, and what better way to remember your dad through the ringing or chiming sound of a clock he once owned.
Around the time of the Millennium, I was the Maintenance Manager,
of a large multi floor building in London, when it came to changing
the clocks in the Spring and Autumn, we had a master clock in a switch
room and it was my job to carry out the time change.
The floors, from the 6th to the 27th, were occupied by the NHS, they also
had a maintenance engineer, I am not sure why! One time, he went to work
on a Sunday, to change the time on all the clocks, around their floors, which
took him all day I would think, as they had several on each level.
I arrived at 7AM on the Monday and my first job was to change the time on
the Master Clock, before anybody arrived at the offices, after 9 o'clock, I got
an irate phone call from their office manager, asking me why the clocks were
all at the wrong time, I had no idea, but one of the security guards knew that
their man had changed them on Sunday, he had to go round and put them
all to the correct time.
We, the building, engineers had a laugh, he, the NHS Engineer was ridiculed
by his own department.
Mike.
of a large multi floor building in London, when it came to changing
the clocks in the Spring and Autumn, we had a master clock in a switch
room and it was my job to carry out the time change.
The floors, from the 6th to the 27th, were occupied by the NHS, they also
had a maintenance engineer, I am not sure why! One time, he went to work
on a Sunday, to change the time on all the clocks, around their floors, which
took him all day I would think, as they had several on each level.
I arrived at 7AM on the Monday and my first job was to change the time on
the Master Clock, before anybody arrived at the offices, after 9 o'clock, I got
an irate phone call from their office manager, asking me why the clocks were
all at the wrong time, I had no idea, but one of the security guards knew that
their man had changed them on Sunday, he had to go round and put them
all to the correct time.
We, the building, engineers had a laugh, he, the NHS Engineer was ridiculed
by his own department.
Mike.
Lovely story!
As I was reading through your story, Mike, it reminded me of this story in this article.
Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks
I actually watched this special on television a number of years ago.
JBR
Senior Member
I use the method Tommy described for setting the time back an hour.
We've got a nice mantle-type pendulum clock. My wife found it at a yard sale for $5, because the woman selling it thought it didn't work (or work properly), admitted such, and sold it cheap (with two keys). The woman wasn't sure it could be repaired, or that it would be worth paying to have that done. I consulted a friend who has collected key-wind clocks, and he told me methods to adjust and care for them.
We've got a nice mantle-type pendulum clock. My wife found it at a yard sale for $5, because the woman selling it thought it didn't work (or work properly), admitted such, and sold it cheap (with two keys). The woman wasn't sure it could be repaired, or that it would be worth paying to have that done. I consulted a friend who has collected key-wind clocks, and he told me methods to adjust and care for them.
sparty60
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Me too from Sparty60, Seth Thomas “ Elba “ absolutely beautiful, I am fortunate to have it.
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What a beauty!
That's how I feel about the wind-up clock we have, it was inherited and the enjoyment of listening to the ticking and chimes never fades.