Hackaday

Clock Escapement Uses Rolling Balls

The escapement mechanism has been widely used for centuries in mechanical clocks. It is the mechanism by which a clock controls the release of stored energy, allowing it to advance in small, precise ...
Hackaday

The Nitty-Gritty Of Making A Brass Clock

Among all the timepieces that we feature here at Hackaday, surprisingly we bring you relatively few clocks. That might seem an incomprehensible statement given the plethora of, well, clocks, that ...
Fashion Headline

Decor Seiko releases a new product, the "Yukyu" table clock. It uses the mechanism that is the origin of mechanical clocks.

Seiko Clock Co., Ltd. will begin selling the new product, Decor Seiko "Yukyu," a table clock that uses the principle of an escapement mechanism that is said to be the first in human history, from ...
The Atlantic

Building an Impossible Clock

As a rule, Donald Saff doesn’t collect clocks he can’t see inside of. It’s the harmonic entanglement of gears—and the skill needed to craft them—that first lured him to horology, the study of ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

What is possibly the world's largest wooden tower clock is ticking away in Nannup

Contentedly ticking away in a specially built shed in Nannup, Western Australia is possibly the largest working wooden tower clocks in the world. Built predominantly of jarrah by local Kevin Bird, the ...