A mechanical wall clock can add a ‘vintage’ value to your décor but maintaining it over the years can be quite challenging. Most large clocks which either have a pendulum or a cuckoo clock arrangement are difficult to fix if they stop working. Although you have a simple set of ways to get them fixed at home via online manuals, if the fault is more complicated it is advisable to get a professional clock repairing done as you don’t want to spoil the workings of the antique wall clock which you may have had for years.

If your wall clock is not working, you could try some basic checks before sending it to a profession clock-repair shop. If it is a pendulum wall clock or one that works on a balance wheel, sometimes the solution to the problem could be as simple as winding the clock. In case of a pendulum clock, wind up the clock to its full capacity and then swing the pendulum to one side by using your hand. The clock should start swinging automatically from there on. In case there is no pendulum in your mechanical clock, it must be working via a balance wheel.

Here all you need to do is wind up the clock to its full potential once and it should get working. Next thing to check if the winding doesn’t solve your problem is if the hands of the clock are touching each other or the dial. By small amount of bending, create some clearance space between the dials and that should solve your problem. Sometimes, wall clocks with a pendulum stop working because they are not ‘in level’. Small adjustments of the case should help fix this error and set your pendulum clock working again.

Complete overhauling of large clocks requires very detailed and tedious work and is usually quite expensive. It involves dismantling of all the movements and inspecting every pivot and bushing point to analyse the problem. A lot of time, some oil from the previous oiling session could have solidified and causes abrasion which leads to the clock not working. In these cases, the entire mechanism of the clock is cleaned to remove old solidified oil and it is replaced with new oil.

After cleaning with an oil-cleaning solution and drying, the entire clock is put together again with precision. This is followed by testing of the large clocks for about a week to examine if it is working properly or not. If it fails this test, the entire process is repeated on the clock. Due to this long and tedious procedure, overhaul of large clocks is usually time-consuming and expensive.

Most of the modern day clocks work on the principle of piezoelectricity wherein a quartz crystal is set to a state of continuous vibration by charging it and these oscillations help calculate the time. A modern wall clock also follows the same mechanism. This mechanism is quite compact in its arrangement and this enables large clocks to also have a small box which holds the entire workings of the clock.


A mechanical Wall Clock http://Largewallclocks.net can be often fixed at home by following some simple troubleshooting steps. Large clocks http://www.largewallclocks.net/largewallclocks.aspx may work on the principle of piezoelectricity or have a more vintage mechanism like that of a pendulum or cuckoo clock.