Who does not remember the cosy tick of the "regulator" in grandmother’s parlour? These regulators are still popular today, with spring or weight movement, and are often reconstructed in plastic housings and fitted with quartz movements. The real regulator (without inverted commas) however was always a precision clock with a second pendulum, centralized second hand, weight movement and airtight housing. It was used to compare or regulate new clocks in clock factories, repairs in workshops, and marine chronometers or deck clocks in observatories.

However, regulators and "regulators" are not alone in the major field of large clocks. In Switzerland especially, there are also the famous Neuchâtel and Sumiswald pendulum clocks, then the southern German Black-Forest and Cuckoo clocks, in France the Morez|clocks, Cartels, "Oeil de Boeufs" and pictorial clocks, in Austria the beautiful "Laterndeluhren", in England and the USA all forms of wall-clocks and, last but not least, all the interesting electrical master clocks, mostly with electrical winding or electrical driven movement and 1/2, 3/4 or 1/1-second pendulum.

A wall-clock with a visible pendulum and simple or complex striking train onto bells or gongs has always been a living - and loved - interior ornament.

The following are some examples of wall-clocks with pendulum movements:

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Neuchâtel clock "ZENITH", wood, paint black and gold, 8 day, lever escapement, Switzerland, approx. 1960, hour and half-hour striking on a bell, total height : 85 cm, (Ref.: W-17857)

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Neuchâtel clock "ZENITH", wood, paint brown and gold, 8 day, lever escapement, Switzerland, approx. 1950, hour and half-hour striking on a bell, total height : 60 cm, (Ref.: W-27856)

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"Vienna Weight Regulator", Biedermeier style, Vienna, circa 1840, height: 140 cm, white, two-piece enamel dial, 8 day, lever escapement, "grande sonnerie" on two gongs (Ref.: W-93012)

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"Vienna Weight Regulator", art nouveau style, German, circa 1880, height: 110 cm, white, two-piece enamel dial, 8 day, lever escapement, Ref.: W-10981 Price: Euro 1250.–

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Bronze cast and mercury-gilt Cartel clock, France, circa 1860, height: 66 cm, white enamel dial with blue Roman numerals, 8 day, French movement with visible cast sun-shaped pendulum, hour and half-hour striking on a bell Ref.: W-41262 Price: Euro 1820.–

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Square wooden and glazed "Oeil-de-Boeuf", France, circa 1880, front with coloured inlays, glass dial marked: "Sargnon à Belleville", dimensions: 46 x 46 cm, square, 8 day French movement with pendulum, hour and half-hour striking on a gong Ref.: W-83914