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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 86996, member: 25"]As a type, carriage clocks made in the traditional way are about the only decent mechanical clocks made now because there is still a market for the design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most clocks have no jewelling. The only reason carriage clocks have them is because the platform escapement is constructed like a watch escapement as a separate part. The jewelling follows typical watch layout, four on the balance staff, including two capstones, impulse jewel, two jewels for pallets on the lever, 2 jewels for the lever pivots and two for the escape wheel pivots.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 86996, member: 25"]As a type, carriage clocks made in the traditional way are about the only decent mechanical clocks made now because there is still a market for the design. Most clocks have no jewelling. The only reason carriage clocks have them is because the platform escapement is constructed like a watch escapement as a separate part. The jewelling follows typical watch layout, four on the balance staff, including two capstones, impulse jewel, two jewels for pallets on the lever, 2 jewels for the lever pivots and two for the escape wheel pivots.[/QUOTE]
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