Monday 7 October 2013

Seiko Striking Clock fixed.

As a follow up post to this one- 
http://awatchmakersdiary.blogspot.in/2013/07/seiko-striking-clock.html , 
I have opened her up and it was as I had suspected. Here is a picture of the dial side of the movement. The hour snail, rack and gathering pallet mechanism is as on purely mechanical clocks. However, there is a motor turning the gathering pallet.


And in the picture below you can see the problem. However, instead of dirt it was a bit of wire (green arrow) getting in the way of the rack (red arrow). 


The wire has been tucked away and all is well with the clock now!