Iron Tower clock restoration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- It’s about the restoration and partly rebuilding of a 216 year old iron tower clock, a fully mechanical wheel clock.It was originally located in the municipality of Bezau in the Bregenz Forest. The church was completely rebuilt and enlarged, the clock mechanism was replaced.
I bought the clock 1985 in a rusted, poor condition. Some parts were missing. In 1904 the tower clock was already restored once before and the escapement was rebuilt respectively modernized.
I rebuild it to the original conditions and replaced the Graham escapement from 1904 with the classical returning escapement
Thanks Christoph, I will email you some photos of my clock now.
This is awesome!
Thank you for posting - very interesting. Excellent work restoring!
Pozdrawiam restauratorów zegara,ja również wykonuję takie prace .Zegarmistrzostwo Jan Nawrot Wołczyn ul.dworcowa
Hi Christoph, you have done a great job on that movement! How did you restore the steel?Did you paint it or use another product to seal it?
hello, no paint, I seal with Ovatrol, a oily conservation which will dry out and stays flexible. send me a mail I like to take more, send some picture of my second tower clock. www.schmiede.ch
It is sale..again..
Have you heard of an astronomical clock, which requires winding every 10,000 years? I’ve found reference too one with a longer period, a much longer period. I keep going over the numbers, and it keeps coming up to 1.2 million years. If you think that’s the crazy part, it’s not. I keep seeing escapements in sketches and painting, over 6000 bc. That’s the crazy part. Do you think you can help? I’d like to take a crack at that engineering puzzle…how bout you.