A regulator clock usually made of wood is an antique vintage timepiece that is wall mounted and driven by a swinging pendulum.
Spring driven wall clocks.
Clocks made from the late 18th century onwards have a glazed dial the face silvered from about 1770 to 1820 and made of painted iron thereafter.
Westminster chime clocks quarter hour chime and hour and half hour striking clocks are available.
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Early wall dials have an unglazed round painted wooden dial about 38 cm across fixed to a movement that is housed in a wooden box.
This is page one of two in the spring driven wall clocks gallery containing 22 models.
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Wall clock kits may be spring driven or weight driven.
The movement can have a pendulum or no pendulum but of course the pendulum is most popular.
So fastening it well is very important.
True vienna regulators are weight driven clocks although there are some spring driven clocks generally referred to as vienna regulators.
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There are more spring driven wall clocks in the world than weight driven.
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In the usa they are called vienna regulators but in the uk among other places they are usually called vienna wall clocks.
The weights are not light and it is a lot for a wall to hold.
Available hours are usually weekdays 9 to 3.
A hundred years would pass before the traditional weights that provided the power for a clock would be challenged by this new power source.
They always have a hole in the back to fit on a wall hook.
To correct a spring driven clocks mantle or wall clock that is bonging the hour when the minute hand gets to 6 o clock instead of 12 o clock just count the bongs take off the minute hand and reinstall it on the clock pointing to 12 o clock then turn the hour hand to the hour you heard the clock bong and its done.
Separate clock mechanisms drive the wall clock hands for the minutes and hours.
A vienna regulator makes a wonderful addition to your home.
It is a spring driven equivalent of the act of parliament clock and owes a debt to the french cartel clock.
Westminster chime clocks quarter hour chime and hour and half hour striking clocks are available.
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Our wind up wall clocks have a precision brass german movement.