Iron Tower clock restoration

It’s about the restoration and partly rebuilding of a 216 year old iron tower clock, a fully mechanical wheel clock.It was originally located in the municipality of Bezau in the Bregenz Forest. The church was completely rebuilt and enlarged, the clock mechanism was replaced.
I bought the clock 1985 in a rusted, poor condition. Some parts were missing. In 1904 the tower clock was already restored once before and the escapement was rebuilt respectively modernized.
I rebuild it to the original conditions and replaced the Graham escapement from 1904 with the classical returning escapement

[@sydneyclockcompany2246]

Thanks Christoph, I will email you some photos of my clock now.

[@steveparker8723]

This is awesome!

[@tarkushead]

Thank you for posting - very interesting. Excellent work restoring!

[@jankowalski203]

Pozdrawiam restauratorów zegara,ja również wykonuję takie prace .Zegarmistrzostwo Jan Nawrot Wołczyn ul.dworcowa

[@sydneyclockcompany2246]

Hi Christoph, you have done a great job on that movement! How did you restore the steel?Did you paint it or use another product to seal it?

[@stauweiher]

hello, no paint, I seal with Ovatrol, a oily conservation which will dry out and stays flexible. send me a mail I like to take more, send some picture of my second tower clock. www.schmiede.ch

[@Lucky-jm1nc]

It is sale..again..

[@raccoonresident5760]

Have you heard of an astronomical clock, which requires winding every 10,000 years? I’ve found reference too one with a longer period, a much longer period. I keep going over the numbers, and it keeps coming up to 1.2 million years. If you think that’s the crazy part, it’s not. I keep seeing escapements in sketches and painting, over 6000 bc. That’s the crazy part. Do you think you can help? I’d like to take a crack at that engineering puzzle…how bout you.