Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The movement freewheeling is achieved when pendulums, escapement pallets and all astronomical components are removed, all of the four main trains, time, celestial, quarter and hour trains are in freewheel. The time train at 24x normal speed, strike trains normal speed due to the fly governors; this difference puts the strike trains in near constant activity as they are being continually tripped by the speeding time train.
The movement freewheeling is achieved when pendulums, escapement pallets and all astronomical components are removed, all of the four main trains, time, celestial, quarter and hour trains are in freewheel. The time train at 24x normal speed, strike trains normal speed due to the fly governors; this difference puts the strike trains in near constant activity as they are being continually tripped by the speeding time train.
