Bridgetown Watch and Clock Repair
339 Granville Street, Highway 1 B0S 1C0 Bridgetown, NS, Canada

This restored 19th century English Fusee schoolhouse clock has had a "new lease on life," with the original clock face just returned from the dial finisher and installed back onto the clock, hopefully... for another one hundred years.

Testing an 8-day Cuckoo clock Music Box after installing a new Governor and cleaning and lubricating the bushings. The Governor or Fan located beside the large Pinwheel controls the speed of the music and also functions as an on and off switch.

An ingenious part inside this 1920s German mantle clock solves two problems with one part. The small rotating part with two pins slowly lifts up to unlock the rack and let it fall and also counts up the hours so you do not have to look at the clock to tell the time. This eliminates the need for a part called the Rack Hook.

Winding up a 19th century Fusee clock. The Fusee cone on the left acts as a transmission for better power distribution to the pendulum for better time keeping. Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing of a Fusee in 1490. Credit was given to Jacob Zech of Prague for inventing it in 1525.

This restored Triple Decker, Birge and Fuller, 8-day mantle clock (c. 1844 - 1848) has an amazing secret! Tucked in back is an original advertisement from J.J. Beal's Clock Merchants in Boston, Massachusetts.

Three clock train wheels were "stuck like glue" in the back of this antique German Westminster clock plate. It has been decades (if ever) that this timepiece has been in a Clockmaker's shop!