I don’t know if any of you are familiar with the late Bernard Tekippe, but in the 1990s he designed a lovely high precision regulator with a fairly simple design! He dispensed of the need of the pallet arbor and crutch by mounting the pallets directly on the pendulum. He made a number of these clocks which have shown to keep higher accuracy than other regulators, keeping accuracy of 0.008 sec/day – comparable to other regulators running in a vacuum chamber.

Despite this amazing accuracy and in my opinion, lovely looking design, there is very little info online!

I’m no expert, I just like attempting to build clocks! There is a great thread over on the NAWCC and I’ve been in contact with Steve on there who is building this clock and who has been super helpful and provided me with lots of drawings and information from his work so far. He has given me permission to use some of his CAD models in my videos – once again, I only do them for fun because I enjoy making them! I’m no expert in any of this.

This is definitely a tribute / hommage to Bernard’s fantastic design – if I can get a working clock keeping good time, I’ll be delighted. If I can get it keeping accurate time then that’s a bonus and something to aspire to.

I hope there is some interest in this clock as it seems a great design with such little available information and discussion!

Here is my first video in my efforts in building this clock:

Cheers, Chris