England Plus Paris: Part 11: Clock mechanism

This clock mechanism survived from an earlier College building. The mechanical engineering geeks turned it into a showpiece. To do this, they had to tweak a couple of things. Because they wanted the mechanism at eye level, they had to use a compound pendulum (or cut a hole in the floor, but they didn't do that). Also, the original clock hands were too big, so they had to use shorter ones.

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