Kienzle circa 1908

  I bought this clock again as a non runner but complete and with its original thick glass  shade. The seller said the mainspring wound up but could not get it to run at all with no movement of the escape wheel when the anchor pin was manually moved from side to side, so let me have it at a very good price for spare parts.
  Now I never like to see a clock that is complete but just won't run used as a parts clock as that would be another one of these beautiful examples lost, so after letting the tension down from the mainspring and removing the anchor it was plain to see that years of hardened oil deposits had robbed any power from the mainspring reaching the escape wheel.
  After a complete strip down clean and examination of the wheels, pivots, pinions and pivot holes no perceivable wear or damage was evident. So with a new Horolovar mainspring the movement was reassembled and tested with the anchor left out at this point. With two clicks of the winding key the movement burst into life with a smooth linear motion of the train and motion work gently coming to rest as the mainspring ran down.
  It even has its original bottom block and fork, (the same as Wurth ) so with a new suspension and setting up, it now runs as it was designed too keeping very good time.

Information.

• 4 inch celluloid dial
• pendulum weight 270grams with steel inserts
• serial number 159344
• Thanks for looking.