The Complete Clock & Pendulum Repair Manual: Understanding, Regulating, and Repairing Antique Wall, Longcase, and Mantel Clocks —Movements, Escapements, Striking Trains, and Restoration, Step by Step

Open the case back. Understand the movement. Repair it. An inherited longcase clock, a comtoise found in a barn, a cuckoo clock silent for twenty years: this manual teaches you to understand, regulate, and repair an antique clock or pendulum yourself , step by step, whether weight-driven or spring-driven.

Written for the serious hobbyist restorer , this guide takes you from identifying the piece all the way to the final regulation of its rate.

Across 30 progressive chapters, you will learn to:

Identify and date a clock from its movement plate, its fusee, and its marks;
Tell apart the great regional traditions: comtoise, cuckoo, Vienna regulator, English longcase;
Understand the recoil escapement, the deadbeat (Graham) escapement, and the Brocot escapement;
Regulate the pendulum and its thermal compensation (gridiron, mercury, invar);
Repair count-wheel and rack striking trains, and cuckoo mechanisms;
Safely disassemble, clean, bush, and reassemble a movement;
Restore dials, hands, glass, and cases with the caution an antique piece deserves.

Includes technical diagrams, real photography, a bilingual glossary, and a directory of major manufacturers.

Never force a mechanism that resists: understand first, then repair.

The manufacturer names mentioned are used in a purely nominative and documentary sense; this is an independent publication, not affiliated with the houses named. See the full note on the copyright page.