Woodward P. Gearless Clock, Horology

England, 2020. — 110 p.Back in 2003/04 at the age of 20 y/o the professor and my tutor at Uni was hugely into Patek Philippe watches. I had a bit of interest and because
Patek make hand made watches they after show images of their production shops and this brought out my hidden engineering interests. Knowing I
couldn`t buy a Patek, I purchased some old pocket watches off ebay to take apart (Smiths). It must have been total luck, but I managed to fix one and suddenly thought I was a clock maker. I decided to buy a Unimat 3 lathe off ebay that I somehow won it at a fantastic price. I made a few posts on NAWCC forum and a chap over in Yorkshire invited me around to see his Unimat 3, clock builds and repairs. In his home we discussed the current ME article showing John Wilding who had just finished writing his plans for Dr Woodward’s Gearless Clock and was posting them in Model Engineer mag. Being a fool, I ordered all the materials and purchased a copy of ME (just the first edition of the build). I asked my dad for some help and one Saturday morning we drilled 3 mounting holes for the brass back plate and failed when it came to soft soldering 3 washers on the back! I realised very quickly that I didn`t have the skills to make a clock and so all the materials and lathe were sold.
So now in 2011, with a couple of years experience behind me, I`m going to give this another go.
I recently ordered all the brass plate and received this a couple of weeks ago and I`m just waiting on the remaining materials, mainly imperial bar
stock to arrive from College Engineering Supplies. I`ve also taken delivery of a length of nylon cord and some 0.006” spring steel. Last week while
on holiday, I appreciatively took delivery of some 1/8” ID bearings from Clive off Madmodder!