Grandfather Clock


Willy

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Thank you all for the wonderful comments.  The family is fighting over who will get the clock when the time comes.  They better start being really nice to me.

@ treeslayer   the movement is item #13044 on the Klockit site.  It's a cable driven unit.  The pendulum is #20024 and the weight shells are #13094 and the dial face is #26930.  I luckily had a 15% coupon which really helped with the price.  Ended up around $620.   

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Wonderful. Reminds me of a childhood song:

My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor;
It was taller by half than the old man himself,
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born,
And was always his treasure and pride;
But it stopped short — never to go again —
When the old man died.

Ninety years without slumbering
(tick, tock, tick, tock),
His life's seconds numbering,
(tick, tock, tick, tock),
It stopped short — never to go again —
When the old man died.
 
Do you ever realize how morbid some of our nursery rhymes were?
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