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  'Got your attention, huh?
Not really... I wish. This PhotoShop'd picture denies the fact that this "pocket watch" wouldn't fit in anyone's pocket - save maybe Paul Bunyan. It's actually 10-1/2" in diameter and 3" thick. 'Still quite small, considering that's power source, oscillator, and all. 		Of course I wanted a "gold" pocket watch, so the case bezels and chain are made of Yellowheart wood. I didn't know how difficult this wood is to work when I decided this. It's as hard as Ash, burns worse than Cherry, and smells almost as acrid as Zebrawood.
I made a table stand and a wall hanger, but prefer to just leave it laying around.
 
  The escape is a double-roller Swiss Lever with a half-second balance wheel. Many thanks to Mark Headrick's book for the design direction! The escape has banking pins and a safety roller, so - like a watch - it runs in any position. You can even shake it or bang it around, and she keeps on ticking!
The balance wheel is in Teflon bushings and the escape wheel is on ball bearings. The pins on the balance wheel have small screws inside to adjust the poise. The cherry pallets are adjustable. The anchor for the "hairspring" (actually a very small clock spring) moves with an adjustment lever to regulate the watch. It keeps perfect time. 		This one's all about the details.

The clockworks frame is made of nine individual plates, and the ones that show are "engraved" with freehand scrollwork and my signature. The watch chain was carved from a single piece of wood (I'd seen this before and always wanted to try it. My advice: Don't; but it was worth it.) The winding key is an accurate copy of an antique watch key I have. The centers of the "blued" wood hands are painted with luminescent "radium" paint, and glow in the dark so you can see what time it is in the night.

 
  The convex glass crystal (from an old "school clock") completely encloses the works, so this very sensitive and delicate mechanism won't suffer from the dust that my other clocks do. It also makes this piece "as quiet as a watch". (And difficult to photograph) The stem operates through a bevel gear set train to set the time. The watch spring (8-day Hermle #54) is key-wound from the back.
the wooden Watch
I'd wanted to do this for years. My original thought was to just put a wooden clockworks in a wooden bowl, hang a fake wood swag chain from it and call it a "watch". But as experience came, that design evolved into this. It's modeled after an antique Hamilton "Railroad" pocket watch in my collection. (Only that one winds by the stem and sets with the key!) This runs as good as the original.