Anonymous clock on my bench

[LittleWatchShop]

I posted about this on NAWCC but thought I would give the clock folks over something to see.

This clock came in a beautiful marble case, but the movement is a cheesy open-spring pin-lever design.

I cleaned it (the efficient way), and it would not run at all.  I realized that the spring was giving almost no power to the train.  I was sure it was a weak mainspring.

Last year, I donated to the local watch and clock museum by buying everything that came up for auction at the local guild meeting.  I dropped $450 for a good cause.  Part of the haul was a bag of mainsprings for clocks.  LOL...what will I ever do with them.  Today, I fished out a mongo spring that would fit in this clock.  The balance wheel took off like a rocket.  I had to collect it in the yard next door .  Well, I decided it was too strong, so I dug through the bag again and found something more appropriate.  The clock is running and keeping time so far.  

[RichardHarris123]

No idea about the clock but can we see the case? 

[LittleWatchShop]

Here

[HectorLooi]

2 hours ago, LittleWatchShop said:

The balance wheel took off like a rocket.  I had to collect it in the yard next door .

Hey, you're lucky. You didn't have to ask Elon to send out SpaceX to retrieve it.

[LittleWatchShop]

19 minutes ago, HectorLooi said:

Hey, you're lucky. You didn't have to ask Elon to send out SpaceX to retrieve it.

But he would have. I am just down the street from Tesla and not many miles from SpaceX

Edited Saturday at 01:46 AM by LittleWatchShop

[oldhippy]

I can see the first photos with the spring do not have the correct size as the width is too narrow to start with. The case looks as if it could be French and the movement I would say is German. What is the dial like. 

[LittleWatchShop]

2 hours ago, oldhippy said:

I can see the first photos with the spring do not have the correct size as the width is too narrow to start with. The case looks as if it could be French and the movement I would say is German. What is the dial like. 

I thought the spring was too narrow as well. I installed a bigger one, but was concerned about overpowering. I will send a Pic of the dial in a bit

3 hours ago, oldhippy said:

I can see the first photos with the spring do not have the correct size as the width is too narrow to start with. The case looks as if it could be French and the movement I would say is German. What is the dial like. 

I think you nailed it.  French!

Here is one on ebay.  Though the movement is not visible, everything else matches up.  It is an 8-day clock, so the little spring I installed will not work.  I will put the big one back in.

[oldhippy]

U C R A is French. I was wrong about the movement it is in fact French

Edited Saturday at 01:12 PM by oldhippy

[LittleWatchShop]

Big spring is back in and it is running nicely.  I should have counted the teeth to get beat rate.

I was able to count in situ.