The new clock has been ticking away for a couple of weeks now. The next step was to make it tell time, which meant completing the pendulum, and giving the clock a pair of hands.
In order to put hands on the clock I also needed to make the set of gears that create the 12-1 ratio between the hour and minute hand (called the motion works). I also made the 60-tooth click for adjusting the time. Finally, stacked in the middle of everything, the cam that lifts and drops the arm that operates the other functions of the clock (moon, day, date, month).
Once all of that was finished I made hands, which I designed in the spirit of “Perpetual No.1”.
Then it was on to the pendulum. Since carving any of the components changes the weight, and thus the timing, I needed to completely sculpt and finish everything before I could begin adjusting the pendulum for accuracy.
Now that the pendulum is finished I can run the clock, check the time, and chop the pendulum rod shorter and shorter until it swings at the right pace.