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Horological Enigma: Antique Clockwork Lexicon
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  • 1. Component enabling precise pendulum swing by flexible support, a fine balancing act.
  • 4. Feature causing hours or quarters to sound, announcing time with a percussive voice.
  • 6. Ornate etched scrollwork often adorning clock faces or casings in rococo style.
  • 9. Sounding sequence that strikes hours, quarters, or custom intervals in melodious order.
  • 10. Rotating cage designed to offset gravitational timekeeping errors in fine clocks.
  • 15. Lever tooth engaging escape wheel, pivotal in the pendulum’s trust.
  • 16. Device regulating striking speed, preventing chaos in the clock’s sonorous chorus.
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  • 2. Oscillator of choice in portable timekeepers, swinging to steady the tick’s heartbeat.
  • 3. Conical pulley counterbalancing mainspring’s varying torque via a winding chain.
  • 5. Series of gears transmitting motive force from mainspring to escapement axle.
  • 7. Complication that strikes the time on demand, harkening to old-world luxury.
  • 8. Mechanism allowing gears to advance incrementally, controlling time’s flow with rhythmic precision.
  • 11. French term evoking the intricate inner workings animating the clock.
  • 12. Early escapement part named for its side-to-side rocking, ancestor to modern finesse.
  • 13. Term describing the reflective finish often applied to dial plates for clarity.
  • 14. Type of mainspring barrel allowing smoother force delivery, slyly named for ‘diver.’

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