Careful assembly of the clock hands and gears leads to a seamless connection, while the sturdy stand provides perfect support for the swinging pendulum and attached weights. The clock impressively ...

The pendulum shaft should pivot on the wall and the clock should be the weight at the bottom of the pendulum shaft! All good. Looks like a hack, smells like a hack … ...

Nestled in a nearly 160 foot tower, the clock is the second largest model to be made by E. Howard & Co., and its pendulum descends 14 feet beneath the mechanism itself.

On June 16, 1657, Christiaan Huygens – a Dutch astronomer, inventor, physicist and mathematician – patented a pendulum clock for the first time. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at how Huygens turned ...