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Tower Clocks - are often found in bell towers.
If you don't know about them, don't mess with them, just look.
Some features may be:
Rewind weights for the pendulum and bell strikes.
. manual rewind (somebody had to climb the tower and rewind the weights) that is where the eight day rewind comes from.
. electrical rewind (to rewind weights automatically, usually a shorter vertical rewind) doesn't need to last for eight days.
small electric motor to run the clock only
12 hour timing - older clocks - ring bells 24 hours a day
24 hour timing - with inserts to stifle ringing at certain hours.
There is actually a person in New England who goes around twice a year to reset clocks for in and out of daylight saving time.
E. Howard (Boston, MA) and Seth Thomas (Thomasville, CT.) are the most prevalent.
An example of each is in the PICTURES section.
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