I have a long case clock, Scottish, ca. 1830 which has been in the family for at least 100 years.
It runs well, has had a full overhaul (around 30 years ago!) and I have got to know it fairly well. One thing that has always puzzled me is that during the winding process, the movement actually runs backwards, quite steadily and seems quite happy that way. I don't believe the movement would have any form of "maintain" feature, so I would expect it to stall during winding if one took a long time, but not to run backwards. Can anyone explain to me why this should be happening? I can post pictures of the movement if helpful.
It runs well, has had a full overhaul (around 30 years ago!) and I have got to know it fairly well. One thing that has always puzzled me is that during the winding process, the movement actually runs backwards, quite steadily and seems quite happy that way. I don't believe the movement would have any form of "maintain" feature, so I would expect it to stall during winding if one took a long time, but not to run backwards. Can anyone explain to me why this should be happening? I can post pictures of the movement if helpful.
