Good evening all,
I just finished restoring a nice Poole gallery clock with a 10 1/2" dial. Hanging on the wall with no hands attached it runs beautifully with the gravity arm triggering about every 50 to 55 pendulum swings. It has been running nearly two days at this triggering intervals.
Now the problem...put on the hour hand and everything is great. Put on the minute hand and it stops each and every hour at 40 minutes past the hour. I imagine that it is the weight of the hour hand dragging the movement to a halt, but the hands are very light aluminum and my understanding of a Poole movement is that the weight of the pendulum drives the movement so a little extra weight would be a moot point.
Any ideas on how to adjust the movement or possibly the escapement? My limited knowledge of these movements is that 50 to 55 swings per triggering represents a very healthy movement. Maybe I am missing something simple
Thanks,
Michael
I just finished restoring a nice Poole gallery clock with a 10 1/2" dial. Hanging on the wall with no hands attached it runs beautifully with the gravity arm triggering about every 50 to 55 pendulum swings. It has been running nearly two days at this triggering intervals.
Now the problem...put on the hour hand and everything is great. Put on the minute hand and it stops each and every hour at 40 minutes past the hour. I imagine that it is the weight of the hour hand dragging the movement to a halt, but the hands are very light aluminum and my understanding of a Poole movement is that the weight of the pendulum drives the movement so a little extra weight would be a moot point.
Any ideas on how to adjust the movement or possibly the escapement? My limited knowledge of these movements is that 50 to 55 swings per triggering represents a very healthy movement. Maybe I am missing something simple

Thanks,
Michael