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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 884360, member: 25"]No need to be delicate with it. The odd key is almost certainly just there and has nothing to do with anything. Any key that fits will do for winding it. It would be the same key size both sides. It is essentially a cheaply made, flashy clock. </p><p>I'd not bother with a glass dome, at the prices they are. They were almost essential in earlier and dirtier days when the problem in the air was soot, dust and housemaids.</p><p>Air is superficailly cleaner now, you do not get the sulfur gasses from the coal fires, or even the abundance of indoor insects.</p><p>You will be fine without the dome. </p><p>Just wind it up, fit the pendulum and away it might go.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 884360, member: 25"]No need to be delicate with it. The odd key is almost certainly just there and has nothing to do with anything. Any key that fits will do for winding it. It would be the same key size both sides. It is essentially a cheaply made, flashy clock. I'd not bother with a glass dome, at the prices they are. They were almost essential in earlier and dirtier days when the problem in the air was soot, dust and housemaids. Air is superficailly cleaner now, you do not get the sulfur gasses from the coal fires, or even the abundance of indoor insects. You will be fine without the dome. Just wind it up, fit the pendulum and away it might go.[/QUOTE]
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