An Antique Grounder Pressure Clock

Watches similar in some respects , this is really advanced toys . As long as the timing function and fun , watch features combined into one, clocks will be a very wonderful , very interesting .


In the early days of antique clocks inside , there are a lot of minutes this structure , which is one bell ball pressure . Kind of clock function of its toys , watch , fun is far greater than the time clock function .

Bowls pressure bell is best suited for display in the hall of the stuff , I saw a watch over the home of a collector . This thing is more of imitation , but his family which is really antique . The clock movement looks golden , whole body about 50 cm high , top of water tankers have a similar kind of big turntable , turntable to the right of many small steel balls hanging grid . The right side of a big chain , is used to supplement the ball .

This ball is also pressure to use the pendulum clock , the pendulum is located behind the movement , the clock power is generated in those rolling balls down the gravity . In fact, it is equivalent to a form of heavy hammer .

Ball pressure on the ball clock , useful large, is also useful for smaller . I have seen the largest , almost equal to the elderly in his hand wandering back and forth , the kind of ball activities, the size of finger bones , each weight should be 200 grams. Bowling ball pressure on the number of minutes ranging from large ball about with more than 10 , with a small ball must have dozens .

If a large ball , which produce power , " waterwheel " rotating relatively slowly, about 4 hours each interval will fall down a ball , but put it back to the ball loading position , to hand inspection . When a ball falls down , the ball will be from the above automatically added to a barn . It turned out I was in Beijing Cang Xin jewelry store watches seen a relatively large ball pressure bell , which they call themselves " Zhendian treasure " , the price is very expensive, to sell more than 30 million.

My friends at home this ball pressure bell is a small ball , about every 5 minutes a ball will fall down . This clock actually has winding ! However, the winding is not going to provide energy to watch , but to enhance that a small ball used . Then, use the potential energy generated by these balls , so that clock move . The minutes of ball is relatively small, about one centimeter in diameter and more particularly the fast release cycles . Winding through the gears and chain , automatically added to the bowling ball clock , every one fell immediately added something one , the chain in the movement when the ball is quite big . Ball in the fall when the supplement and have the font of the chute , can see them rolling and slide .


But whatever whim of the mechanical structure , with automatic triggers and can cycle back and forth is a common feature . Get out and supply balls , the ball rolling in orbit , that is, the extension of its novelty and display . But I feel that the clock should have had a big glass sub- fishes, such as large, antique clock glass , but also valuable , and easily damaged , not much can be well preserved .

There is also a bowling clock , but it 's ball as the clock is not the driving force , but as escapement function , the release of used gear . And it is only a special small ball , on a plate, along the font of the tank rolling over , the clock introduced later.