Previously, I haven't made key-wound mechanisms, so Clock 4 is to be driven by a roughly 1" barrel wound with a key. The drive wheel rides loosely on the barrel arbor, which is (at least for now) friction-locked onto the barrel.
The barrel arbor has a 1/8" plain pivot that fits a hole in the back plate. To engage the key, there is a cross drilling for a steel pin. The drive wheel is supported in a cock screwed onto the back plate.
The drive wheel meshes with a pinion that directly drives the escape wheel.
The pinion rides on a small arbor that itself screws into the back plate.
I will cut away some of the cock to allow clearance for the escape wheel, which also will carry the minute hand (directly). I also plan to try Aaron Dodd Crane's daisy wheel motion work to drive the hour hand coaxially.
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