This is a french Comtoise or Morbier clock with a crown wheel escapement. Also known as a verge escapement, this form of controlling the release of energy is the earliest known type of escapement, and the one used for the longest time, supplanted in the early to mid 19th century by the anchor escapement. Here’s…

Here is a beautiful Pillar and Scroll clock, likely dating to the 1820’s or 1830’s. Eli Terry innovated new ways to produce wooden works clocks, achieving the first mass-production with interchangeable parts. Several very clever design and production details made this clock affordable to more people than previous brass-movement tall case clocks were. Our first…

“Dickory Dickory dockThe mouse ran up the clockThe clock struck oneThe mouse sat stillThe Dickory Dickory clock was ill!” Here is a charming clock invented by Elmer Ellsworth Dungan around 1908 for his daughter who loved the nursery rhyme: “The Dickory Dickory Clock.” [at various times and places the rhyme has gone “hickory dickory,” “dickory…

This is what’s known as a Comtoise or Morbier grandfather clock. Let’s clean it up and get it ticking again, then we can discuss its name. Someone repainted the case. My instructor and I began to scrape the paint away, but that process is still ongoing. Here’s our first look at the movement. With a…