The escapement mechanism has been widely used for centuries in mechanical clocks. It is the mechanism by which a clock controls the release of stored energy, allowing it to advance in small, precise ...

There are few things to which we pay as much attention as the passage of time. We don’t want to be late for work, or a date. Even more importantly, we don’t want to age and die. Good time keeping is ...

AN escapement in general is to be considered a good one just in proportion as it prevents variations of friction in the clock-train from reaching the pendulum.

For more than four decades, Mr Mun Chor Weng has kept a clock thought to have decorated one of Asia’s finest hotels at the turn of the 20th century. At the crack of dawn every Sunday, the 83-year-old ...