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I recently came into possession of this beautiful clock! I don’t know anything about it unfortunately and the hourly gong mechanism appears to have slipped, but it keeps time!

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[-] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Beautiful machine!

[-] cdegroot@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Gorgeous thing. Is that mercury in the glass tubes in the pendulum?

[-] capybeby@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

That would be sick, but no it is not liquid.

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