A very warm welcome to the Time Site.  I do hope you enjoy yourself while you're here.  Before I go any further, please find below three organizations that you'd be wise to consider joining if you really have an interest in anything horological;


American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute,           British Horological Institute Ltd.,
701 Enterprise Drive,                                                  Upton Hall,
Harrison, OH 45030-1696                                          Upton,
                                                                                   Newark,
                                                                                   Nottinghamshire
                                                                                   NG23 5TE
                                                                                   United Kingdom


                                            National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors


I do hope these addresses will prove useful to you and of interest.  Simply click on the names of the three organizations concerned, and you'll be taken directly to their sites.  Let me please stress that I am NOT an affiliate for any of them.  As a retired clockmaker, I used to belong to the British Horological Institute and the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors.  Joining all three would be a wise move, but I have no idea now how much membership costs.

New items and articles will be going up on this site all the time, so I would urge you respectfully to look in every so often to see what else has been added.
                                                                     

Watches For Men

Mantel Clocks

Kieninger Mantel Clock

Kieninger Mantel Clock

Grandfather Clocks

Bulova Jefferson Grandfather Clock

 

Hermle Grandfather Clock

The Atmos Clock

The Grasshopper Escapement by George Harrison

The Escapement is the mechanism whereby the power of the clock or watch,

be it from a mainspring, or in the case of grandfather clocks, the weights,

is allowed to 'escape' isochronously, or in equal time.

Without the escapement, the clock or watch would simply 'run wild.'

Grasshopper Escapement

There will be further explanations of the Grasshopper Escapement later,
but the Escapement shown below, The Double Three Legged Gravity Escapement,
is the exact type that's used on Big Ben.