This ships clock came into the workshop, it had fallen off the wall, no damage to the case but the movement had bent out of shape.

We can fix this!

When you can’t get your clock to work, probably because it has not been serviced for 50 years, you wind the pendulum up (to give it a really big boost - a fallacy) and damage the suspension spring - now it will never work. How it should look below.

Obviously something has slipped on this clock, it came to me as a non-runner, and once the movement was removed, it was pretty obvious why…. a fair bit of dentistry to replace those broken teeth…

Some one has used glue to fix this air dam, but in reality the dam should move slightly, it was cleaned of and repaired properly..:

A broken mainspring has stripped the teeth to this barrel and fractured one of the leaves to the pinion - a major repair job needs to be undertaken to get the clock working again - if only it had been serviced properly…

This anniversary clock came in with the suspension created from fuse wire, of course it would not work….

Taking the movement off its plinth revealed lots of metal shards that had obviously dropped out, a detailed inspection of the movement will be needed

This American wall clock was not running because of a botched repair where the rods had slipped out of the lantern pinion…

A seriously gummed up bearing on a carriage clock that came in for a new mainspring. Full overhaul required on this clock…

The count arm is jammed on the snail wheel (the one that looks like a snail shell), you can see the pin of the count arm sitting on the snail, stopping both the chime train and the time train. Probably caused by turning the hands anti clockwise…..

Small fracture on a cuckoo clock mainspring. If it had been left, it would have eventually broken, and the instantaneous release of all the energy in the spring can break teeth on wheels or even worse damage to the movement - the owner would then blame themselves for ‘overwinding’ the clock, when in fact it is just wear and tear on the spring….

It pays to have your clock serviced regularly by a professional.

A dirty Vincenti movement from a oak mantle clock, dating around the 1860s.

The corrosion was so bad we had to use a blowtorch to get the strike are off.

This bent tooth was stopping the cuckoo clock at the same time every hour (we have marked it in black), luckily we managed to straighten it without breaking it.

This is what we found when we took the back off this vintage cuckoo clock, you can read about the restoration on our blog

This carriage clock was not striking, that is because someone turned the hands anticlockwise (with some force) and bent the pins that trigger the hour and half hour strikes!

Pulled this movement out of a 19th century cuckoo clock, don’t think it has ever been serviced….