Fully restoring the beautiful damascene finish on a Herschede 9-tube movement

Fully restoring the beautiful damascene finish on a Herschede 9-tube movement
Restoring a 300 year old brass clock dial
The Seth Thomas Office Calendar No. 2 is a large weight driven double dial calendar clock. They were made from about 1863 – 1890 and stand 44″ tall. Time is […]
Most of my repair work has been on smaller pieces, but I’ve done a few full-sized clocks lately, and have needed something more convenient to rig and test movements in […]
Clocks are most useful when they keep accurate time. While very few mechanical clocks are as accurate as modern quartz movements and certainly will never match the absolute accuracy of your […]