I thought this was an interesting innovation. This device on a Kroeber, American made, clock was to keep the clock from getting out of beat and the suspension spring from being damaged during transport. It seems quite elaborate considering that once a clock is put in place it isn't moved all that often.

Does it work? I used this movement for workshops on simple machines, gear trains, etc. It has lived the last decade in a plastic crate, with other workshop supplies, being bounced around from place to place. It never failed to run when I put it on the stand. And yesterday, when I rescued it from its crate (I'm no longer doing those workshops) - it fired up and is still running. I guess it the device worked.

I would like to see other "non-standard" innovations on clock movements.

Please post!!

Tom Seymour
NAWCC# 41293
IHC Executive V.P.