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Carriage clock; eight-day movement with alarm and repeat; silvered-metal dial; recessed seconds and calendar; lever platform escapement; gilt case with fluted columns to sides; original tooled red leather case; original certificate in case. TRAIN-COUNT. Gt wheel 128 2nd wheel 80/24 Centre wheel 80/12 3rd wheel 60/10 Contrate wheel 48/8 Escape wheel 20/6 Canon pinion 12 Minute wheel 36 Minute pinion 10 Hour wheel 40 Mounted concentrically on canon pinion is a wheel of 32 which drives another of 64 (and yet ECN says this turns once in 24 hours CHECK). The wheel of 64 has pinion of 16 driving another of 16 which has two pallets to index the date and day-of-week drums. Date drum carries a single pin which, once per turn indexes month drum. Contrate wheel carries seconds hand. REPEATING TRAIN. Gt wheel 60 2nd wheel 45/8 3rd wheel 34/8 Ratchet wheel 15/8 Pallet 1 ALARM TRAIN. Gt wheel 72 Ratchet wheel 24/8 Pallets 2
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