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Model of the dead-beat escapement as invented by George Graham

Model of dead-beat regulator escapement

Table clock movement by Grignion & Son, London, prior to 1784. 11 inch silvered dial with sunk seconds dial and steel hands. Signed 'Grignion & Son London' within a sunk cartouche. Fusee movement of 8 day duration with a deadbeat escapement and short pendulum, and maintaining power. The escapement gives impulse on one pallet only. Presented to the museum of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers by John Grant in 1875.

Table clock movement with dead beat escapement by Grignion and Son

1740-1784

Dead-beat escapement model (full size) with wooden stand.

Dead-beat escapement model (full size) with wooden stand

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