Organic Escapement #6

This escapement-mechanism has a double pivot with a connecting linkage which results in a kind of push-push grasshopper escapement. A little stone of 110 g gives energy to the pendulum by slowly falling down over 1,7 m with a pulley system which will take exaclty one hour. Each spike of the escapement alternately escapes when the recoil on the scapewheel, caused by the pendulum, pushes the scapewheel back over 2 degrees at the other spike. Then the pull of the string locks the pushing spike so that the pend
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